Curso online gratis sobre Educación Inclusiva y Discapacidad Visual - Estudiar por Internet. Education.gov.sk. Education.gov.sk. Resources for the Visually Impaired at Internet 4 Classrooms. Www.state.gov/documents/organization/211288.pdf. Teaching the Blind or Visually Impaired Student: Teaching Tips, Lesson Plans & Advice. Teach Blind Students. Humanising Language Teaching Magazine for teachers and teacher trainers. Anna Maria Aiazzi, Italy Anna Maria Aiazzi graduated in Modern Foreign Languages (English Language and Literature) at the University of Florence on October 29th, 1999, discussing a thesis on V.
Woolf's 'Orlando'. She took her Ph-D. degree in English and American Literature at the University of Florence on July 19th, 2004, discussing a dissertation on English Modernist writers (Vorticism) and Quantum theories. Since 2002 she has been teaching English Language and Culture mainly in Italian secondary schools of second degree, in and around Florence From 2004 to 2006 she attended the SSIS-course at the University of Florence. On April 14th, 2007) she also took a degree as Teacher for Impaired Students at the University of Florence (to teach in secondary schools of first and second degree).
In the last school year I had the opportunity to teach English at a state vocational school for blind and visually impaired pupils. References Voice Blindness in "Wikipedia" (www.en.wikipedia.org). Teaching English as a New Language to Visually Impaired and Blind ESL Students: Problems and Possibilities. Sylvie Kashdan Robby Barnes Kaizen Program for New English Learners with Visual Limitations Cecilia Erin Walsh St.
James ESL Program Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to immigrants and refugees who are visually impaired or blind involves complex challenges such as working with mainstream ESL programs that have low expectations of people with disabilities, coping with inaccessible intake tools and training materials, locating and recruiting students from immigrant and refugee populations that do not always believe people with disabilities can become literate and productive citizens, locating and recruiting appropriately trained volunteer tutors, and matching students with tutors. In this paper, the authors identify the challenges and propose solutions. They also describe a collaborative project between the Kaizen Program and the St. In the course of surveying the mainstream ESL programs, Kaizen staff contacted the St. Challenges and Responses to the Challenges. Www.ace-education.org/educ_resource/pt_4/res_impairstud.pdf. Teaching English to blind students. How do you describe colours to the blind?
Are colours important to them? Are they fashion conscious? How do you teach poetry to them? How do they conceive concepts? Can they learn science? Of all the subjects teaching English to the blind is the easiest. Understanding degrees of blindness Understanding the background Setting up a readers service Technological help In the classroom Reactions of other students Teaching tips Conclusion Understanding degrees of blindness First and foremost the teachers have to understand the visual condition of their blind student. Is he or she totally blind? Whatever amount of residual vision that is left of a blind person should be utilised to the maximum.
Understanding the background The next thing to do is to learn the background of the student. Setting up a readers service When confronted with a totally blind student do not despair. Teaching English to blind students. Teaching English to blind students.