Browsing by Author "Isaacs, Aimee"

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    TEDI 4 Week 3 - Becoming Part of a Support Team- A Mother's Perspective
    (2019-06-01) Isaacs, Aimee; Chikowore, Sandra
    In this video, Aimee Isaacs and special needs educator Sandra Chikowore discuss Sandra's experience in empowering a team to work together to care for children with severe to profound intellectual disability. Sandra, as a mother of a child with a disability, has experience in caring for children with different kinds of disabilities, such as children with autism and fetal alcohol syndrome. She discusses the role she plays in linking the support teams, caregivers and community partners in the care process, and which community members are involved in the care of children with disabilities. She then discusses how each different member of the support team enables or supports the care for children with disability, from physicals care work to advocacy. She discusses the importance of mutual respect, collaboration and open communication between different support team members.
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    TEDI 4 Week 3 - Building Relationships of Care and Education
    (2019-06-01) Isaacs, Aimee
    In this video, Aimee Isaacs discusses how to empower the team working with children with severe to profound intellectual disability in order to support learning. Aimee speaks of the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to supporting learning, involving different specialists and caregivers in the educational process. She speaks of the importance of specialists consulting caregivers as part of their intervention, and the value of minimising the power imbalance between these groups as perceived authority and power dynamics can reduce the quality of information that the primary caregivers provide. She then speaks of the multi-disciplinary care approach as part of a holistic care approach, that brings together different skillsets and acknowledges different socio-economic and environmental factors in developing and implementing a care plan. She discusses the importance of creating mutually-empowering working relationships between the different specialists and caregivers.
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    TEDI 4 Week 3 - Engaging the child in learning
    (2019-06-01) Isaacs, Aimee
    In this video, occupational therapist Aimee Isaacs discusses how to engage children with severe to profound disabilities throughout the day. Children with disabilities may take more time to grasp certain concepts. It is important to determine the needs and capabilites of the different children within your class, and accessing the professional support network (specialists, caregivers, etc.) can help in ascertaining each student's needs. She recommends an approach that starts with meeting the child at their level and then developing a learning plan that addresses their needs and capabilities that allows them to reach the cognitive level they are capable of, and allowing them to participate in the community. She also speaks of the importance of using diverse learning activities to allow them to expand and grow their own awareness and cognitive capacity, and the importance of providing choice and agency in learning.