Pełnosprawny Student V Kraków, 15 listopada 2011 r.

Learning Disabilities

Understanding Differences in Learning and How to Design for Them

What is disability?

Medical Model • deficiency, abnormal Social Model • difference, normal • in the individual • improve individual • in the interaction • improve interaction • professional is expert • individual is expert

Human Variation Model

a mismatch between how an individual’s characteristics/abilities and society’s design

Learning Disability as…

a mismatch between how an individual learns and how she/he is taught

Learning Abilities

What abilities are necessary for learning?

Learning Abilities

How do individuals learn?

•Listening (Auditory) •Seeing (Visual) •Doing (Kinesthetic)

Differences in Thinking and Communicating •Verbal •Non-Verbal •Global •Linear

Teaching Methods

How do instructors teach?

Lecturing Writing Demonstrating

Educational Design Lectures Multiple Choice Exams Papers Pop Quizzes Oral Presentations Studios/Labs Web-based Material

Podcast 2

by Michael Werner Welcome to J-201 and the second podcast lecture of the term. Click here to get the file Size 12.1 MB - File type audio/mpeg

Inclusive Design

•Information in multiple formats {spoken, written, modeled} •More time for reading, exams, papers •Different options for evaluation {test, paper, project}

Support and Services

Testing Adjustments • Additional time • Use of computer • Reader/scribe Assistive Technology • Reading/writing software Notetaking Assistance • Copies of notes • Recording technologies

Educate Others

Learning Differences Inclusive Design

Dziękuję za uwagę

Molly Sirois

Program Developer/Consultant Accessible Education Center University of Oregon [email protected]

Projekt jest współfinansowany ze środków Fundacji im. Stefana Batorego oraz Gminy Miejskiej Kraków

Patronat honorowy: Partner: Patroni medialni: