independence skills tuesday 14 th january 2014 2.30-3.10 michelle beirne-shalice and gary learmonth...
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Independence Skills
Tuesday 14th January 20142.30-3.10
Michelle Beirne-Shalice and Gary Learmonth
sensory support service
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• To develop an awareness and understanding of the implications of a vision impairment on developing independence skills.
Learning Objective
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• This workshop will focus on the implication of a vision impairment on developing independence skills at home and in school. This will include an assessment of your individual pupil’s independence skills and steps towards developing these areas of need. There will be opportunities to see specialist ILS equipment.
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Mobility and independence assessment
• All children with a visual impairment should have a basic assessment.
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Educational progress
• Included in Statement of SEN under “educational provision”
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Inclusion
• More than academic inclusion
• Full inclusion in all activities of the classroom on an equitable level to fully sighted peers
• All require good mobility and independence skills
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What are mobility and independence skills?
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Early and Foundation Mobility and Independence
• Body and spatial awareness – e.g. early sensory-motor development, spatial language, mobility and orientation in different settings
• Social and emotional development – asking for assistance, social conventions, manners, confidence and motivation.
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Advanced Mobility and Independence
• Travel skills – e.g. routes and technical aspects of travel, mobility and orientation, road safety, cane techniques
• Independent living skills (ILS) – e.g. kitchen skills, eating, hygiene, money handling, dressing.
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Independent living skills• Kitchen skills, e.g.• Household management• Money management• Personal presentation skills• Dressing• Personal hygiene, teeth• Medication• Shopping• Self-service café and various other contexts• ‘Transferability of skills’ and ‘problem solving’
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Mobility skills and the NC
• Mobility skills need to overlap with the National Curriculum – communication essential between all working with the pupil including their parents
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Roles and responsibilities
• Who?• Roles need to be formalised• Key people need to be trained and supported
appropriately
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Now…
• Assessment of individual pupil’s independence skills
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Next steps…
• Identifying an area of need and next steps to developing this skill
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Examples of ILS equipment
• Liquid level indicator
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Tactile measuring jug
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Talking weighing scales
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Talking clock
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Kitchen timer
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Dycem mats
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•Questions?
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Sensory Support ServiceElmfield House
Greystoke AvenueWestbury-on-Trym
BristolBS10 6AY
Tel: 0117 9038442Fax: 0117 9038440
Text: 0781 050 6669
www.sensorysupportservice.org.uk
sensory support service