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Next year i am going to teach a blind student, she will be in grade two. I am concerned about her a lot, i took a course in braille method. My problem is how to teach her because she needs an individual classes..
I am very confused, I am afraid...... Please advise me and give me suggestions!
She is blind + English is a language = only oral lessons (ask and answer, simple listening comprehensions). You can use common objects so she can touch them while you say the word.
Firstly, if she is in a classroom situation, what a wonderful experience for the rest of the students. They will learn so much from him/her just being with them.
Secondly, as you have already gone to the trouble of learning brail, why not go one step further and contact your local �Blind Workers Organisation� or a similar org. Ask them for some guidelines about the handling of the student. Not necessarily the teaching side but more on the emotive and physical sides.
Once the (not the nicest way of explaining but truest I think) novelty wears off everyone will realise that he/she is a person, just like the rest of us.
1.Kapperman, G. and Sticken,
J. (2003) �Using the Braille Lite to study foreign languages�, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 97(11), pp. 704-709.
