TEDI 3 Week 2 - Orientation and Mobility and Daily Living Skills

Botha, Michelle; Dzapasi, Golden

TEDI 3 Week 2 - Orientation and Mobility and Daily Living Skills

MOOC

2019-12-01

Abstract

In this video, Michelle Botha and Golden Dzapasi discuss the importance of physical mobility and daily living skills in assisting people with visual disabilities in participating fully in the social, cultural, economic and political life of South Africa. Michelle discusses how visually-impaired people experience difficulties navigating a built environment that is not designed with accessibility in mind, as well as experience difficulties in a communicative culture that is largely visual in nature. Michelle and Golden discuss how education can be adjusted to teach concepts that would be learned incidentally in a more intentional way. They discuss the full range of skills (such as gross and fine motor skills), directional indicators, different surfaces, and other aspects such as traffic and travel that visually-impaired learners will need to grasp in order to function as full members of society. They close by discussing how teachers (and parents and other professionals) can model and encourage the development of these skills at school and at home.