TEDI 4 Week 2 - How Learning Takes Place

Spangenberg, Karlien

TEDI 4 Week 2 - How Learning Takes Place

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2019-06-01

Abstract

In this video, Karlien Spangenberg discusses how children with disabilities are still able to learn despite their disabilities. She explains how children with severe to profound intellectual disability learn. She breaks down learning into several stages of learning; specifically, the Awareness stage (with full dependence on the caregiver); Engagement (where children learn to retain information with the assistance of the caregiver); Active Learning (where children become active participants in their own learning). While children with disabilities may not be able to progress through all phases of learning, but they can be assisted to move as far along the process as their individual capacity allows. She discusses how to determine where a child is along the learning pathway and the specific verbal and non-verbal cues that the child may make which can be used to determine how they are learning, and therefore the most appropriate learning activities that they will be able to engage in.

Keywords

disability education

intellectual disability

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