We have what we call a loss of incidental learning. When you have a visual impairment, these things don’t happen automatically. Right away we have to do something to change the context, to reinforce the social skills that - or the interaction so that we can be more dynamic, hopefully wake that person up and maintain the other person’s interest. We look at people sitting in the room and we look at their body language and we say, “Oh, that person seems interested, they’re nodding their head.” Or we look at the person over here who has their arms crossed and they’re sort of fading to sleep and we understand that, you know. Very often social skills seem to be automatic for us. Social skills are things that we take for granted. The objectives of the module enable us to help understand the impact of visual impairment on social skills development. It’s a way to look at social skills development for the student with visual impairments and begin to analyze and adapt your activities so that they can learn social skills in an equivalent way to their peers. The module we will be showing today is on social skills. Today’s web cast is an introduction to a module which is part of a larger book called Welcoming Students with Visual Impairments to Your School. I’m supervisor of the Educational Partnerships Program here at the Perkins School for the Blind. Collaborative Process and IEP Integration.Providing Access to Social Learning Opportunities.
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