Browsing by Author "Kotze, Elnette"

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    TEDI 2 Week 2 - Interview: Personal Experiences of Barriers to Learning
    (2019-06-01) Swift, Odette; Kotze, Elnette
    In this video, Odette Swift invites Elnette Kotze, to share her insights and experiences as a Deaf child in the classroom. Elnette discusses her mainly positive childhood experiences at home and school but also mentions the cruelty of some learners towards her. She talks about how her experiences have informed her work as an occupational therapist. She also talks about the invisibility of hearing impairment and the consequent false assumptions people make. This video lecture 9/11 of week 2 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.
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    TEDI 2 Week 2 - Understanding Additional Barriers to Learning
    (2019-06-01) Kotze, Elnette
    In this video, Elnette Kotze talks from her lived experience vantage point. She begins by pre-empting challenges and feelings that teachers of deaf children may face and experience respectively but quickly allays their fears by proposing strategies of handling these. She also discusses the intrinsic and extrinsic barriers that deaf children may experience and offers practical tips on what teachers can do to minimize or overcome the barriers. This video lecture 8/11 of week 2 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.
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    TEDI 2 Week 3 - Interview: Practical Classroom Modifications
    (2019-06-01) Swift, Odette; Kotze, Elnette
    In this video, Odette Swift interviews the well informed Elnette Kotze, an Occupational Therapist, who shares her expertise on teaching deaf learners. Elnette effortlessly, discusses a plethora of modifications that teachers can make in their classes and in their lessons to ensure that teaching and learning practices are accessible to deaf learners. This video lecture 3/9 of week 3 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.