Compensatory Skills: Essential Considerations for Learning

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Presented by Ellen C. Mazel, M.Ed., CTVI

The child with a visual impairment uses residual vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste to learn about the world. These senses are the access points for learning. This webinar discusses how these senses develop and how they can be optimally used for learning. We will discuss assessment of the sensory channels for understanding the child’s access strengths and areas of access need. Strategies for including compensatory skills in programming will be highlighted.

For resources on Compensatory Skills and the Expanded Core Curriculum, visit Scout, the Information Clearinghouse on Blindness & Visual Impairment, a service of Perkins School for the Blind.

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Learning Goals and Objectives

Upon completion of the session, participants will be able to:

  • State one method of sensory channel assessment.
  • Name one strategy for incorporating all the senses into an activity.
  • Name one way to support a child’s auditory sense in instruction.
  • Name one way to support the child’s touch sense in instruction.
  • Name the sense that is immediately available for learning at birth.

 

PRESENTER SUMMARY:
Ellen Cadigan Mazel, M.Ed. CTVI, Cortical Visual Impairment Advisor, works for Concord Area Special Education Collaborative (CASE Collaborative) in Concord, Massachusetts as a teacher of students with visual impairments, deafblindness and cortical visual impairment. She is also affiliated with the Minuteman Early Intervention Program in Concord, supporting infants and toddlers with visual impairments and their families.

Just this year, Ellen Mazel launched CVITeacher, a website providing information and resources about cortical-cerebral visual impairment and its affect on education and development.

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