Using the Sensory Learning Kit
Strategies for learners with visual and multiple impairments
November 12th - 13th
9AM - 4PM
@ Education Service Center Region 11
Description
Students with severe multiple impairments have very unique educational needs. When their present levels of performance are at the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, regardless of chronological age, they learn about their worlds and develop basic skills by participating in experiences that allow them to use sensing and acting systems. Barriers to learning imposed by sensory, cognitive, and motor impairments must be overcome by teams of professionals who can use research-based strategies to design highly effective instructional activities.
Objectives
Participants will identify the characteristics of learning at the sensorimotor stage.
Participants will identify the specific components of sensing and acting systems related to developing skills and concepts.
Participants will assess priority educational needs using tools designed for sensorimotor stage learners.
Participants will examine strategies for designing instructional activities that provide the repetition and consistency required for overcoming barriers to learning at these stages.
Audience
Teachers of the Visually Impaired
Orientation and Mobility Specialist
Special Education Teachers
Teachers of the Deaf Hard of Hearing
Paraprofessionals
Anyone working with or assessing students in the sensory motor stage.
Presented by: Millie Smith, Consultant, Developer of the APH Sensory Learning Kit and Symbols and Meaning Kit
Millie Smith is a private consultant for students with visual and multiple impairments. She worked at the Texas School for the Bind and Visually Impaired as an outreach teacher-trainer, classroom teacher of students with visual and multiple impairments, and a resource teacher for academic students who were visually impaired. Millie was an itinerant teacher of students who are visually impaired in the Dallas Independent School District, as well as an instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in visual impairment and emotional disturbance. She has published several books and numerous articles.
Stephanie Walker
Educational Consultant
Visual Impairments and Orientation & Mobility
Instructional Services Division
Email: sisbell@esc11.net
Website: www.esc11.net
Location: 1451 South Cherry Lane, White Settlement, TX, United States
Phone: 817-740-7594
Twitter: @braillegal