Demonstration Activities Complex Integrated Educational Therapy The Preparatory

Demonstration Activities Complex Integrated Educational Therapy

The Preparatory School Year Classroom Description: The classroom is comprised of 6 pupils as follows: 3 are blind (unsighted) and 3 are Visually Impaired (minor and moderate impairment)

Activity Overview 1. Cognitive stimulation Topic: “Compare them!” Objective: to form, develop and understand the concepts of LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN This activity takes around 20 minutes. It is an activity of tactile stimulation for the blind, exercises for pre-Braille preparation, and for the others, understanding the terms correctly.

Activity overview: The teacher presents the topic and the objective, then makes a short description of the activity. Next, the pupils revise the notions of laterality and spatial orientation —LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN—in the big space (e. g. , in the classroom) and in the small space (e. g. , on the desk). The blind pupils are given cubarithms, while the others are given square sheets of paper for Mathematics.

On the cubarithm, the blind pupils are asked to place the cubes with the dash on the right and fill in the top row. On the square sheets, the partially-sighted pupils are required to write a dash in the right squares of the top row. The row below is filled in with the dash positioned on the left, both on the cubarithm and the square sheets

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Teacher talks to the pupils and checks the cubarithm and the sheets, insists on the notions of LEFT, RIGHT, then congratulates pupils whenever they properly solve the given tasks and use the correct terms.

Presented: Teacher: Carmen Avramescu School for partially-sighted November 2016 Bucharest