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Strategies for Teaching Braille to Adults

Strategies for Teaching Braille to Adults. Performance Objectives. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to… Recognize how to change negative attitudes about Braille Understand how to make Braille relevant Know how to help your adult students learn.

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Strategies for Teaching Braille to Adults

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  1. Strategies for Teaching Braille to Adults

  2. Performance Objectives By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to… • Recognize how to change negative attitudes about Braille • Understand how to make Braille relevant • Know how to help your adult students learn

  3. Performance Objectives cont… • Explain why adults find it difficult to learn Braille • Appreciate the benefits of parents learning Braille.

  4. Change negative attitudes about Braille • Explain that Braille doesn't "make you blind" • Being seen reading or writing Braille in public is not a symbol of weakness • Being seen reading or writing Braille in public is not a symbol of lack of ability

  5. Change negative attitudes about Braille cont… • Tell students to bring their literacy skills with them • Explain how Braille will fit into each individual student's life.

  6. Change negative attitudes about Braille cont… • Point out that Braille will insure privacy • Increase positive impressions of blindness and people who are blind • Find other adventitiously blind volunteers to mentor newly blinded students learning Braille.

  7. Make Braille immediately relevant by… • Stressing functional uses • Making lists • Keeping track of phone numbers and addresses • Reading to children or grandchildren • Labeling personal items, and so on

  8. Help Your Adult Students Learn • Start with something simple and personal • Use small and familiar motivational items for practice • Teach anticipation • Use playing cards

  9. Help Your Adult Students Learn cont… • Use Braille magazines • Use flash cards • Make lesson and practice schedules flexible and suitable • Contract practice time before you start the lesson

  10. Help Your Adult Students Learn cont… • Tape the lessons to help the student remember • Make homework practical • Help clients by assisting • Encourage student and family members to participate

  11. Learning Braille as an Adult • Reasons why older people find it difficult to learn Braille • Language Patterns are established in the brain • A change from visual mode to tactual mode • A shift from a gross perceptual system to a fine perceptual system • Negative attitude

  12. Reasons why older people find it difficult to learn Braille cont… • Lack of self-confidence • Loss of vision affects other parts of the brain • The cause of blindness may affect other functions • The elderly have impairments • The elderly may not see a need for Braille • The Braille code itself

  13. What are the benefits of parent's learning Braille • Blind children whose parents learn Braille benefit affectively • Parents who know Braille can easily monitor the quality of the child's homework • Parents who know Braille can help their child use Braille for activities other than schoolwork

  14. Are you now able to… • Recognize how to change negative attitudes about Braille • Understand how to make Braille relevant • Know how to help your adult students learn • Explain why adults find it difficult to learn Braille • Appreciate the benefits of parents learning Braille.

  15. References • American Federation for the Blind http://www.afb.org/section.asp?SectionID=44&TopicID=108&DocumentID=926 • SNOW http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=297 • Why Parents Should Learn Braille by Margaret Malinski

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