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LITERACY FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL
IMPAIRMENTS & COMPLEX NEEDS,
INCLUDING DEAFBLINDNESS:
WHERE DO I START?
Peggy Sinclair-Morris, M.A.
Donna Carpenter, Ed.D.
The Kentucky Deaf Blind Project1
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PARTICIPANT OBJECTIVES
As a result of this activity, participants will be able to
⚫ complete a Literacy Skills Checklist for a learner with visual
impairments and multiple disabilities.
⚫ identify the building blocks of literacy.
⚫ describe two activities to use with a learner developing joint
attention, interaction, or tactile exploration skills.
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Looking at
literacy
from a new
perspective
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ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LITERACY
� Literacy exists along a continuum from emergent literacy to
independent literacy.
� All children can become and are becoming literate
� Literacy development is founded on experiences and concepts
beginning very early in life
� Literacy instruction must include a strong emphasis on
communication and socialization.
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Early Emergent
Literacy
Emergent
Literacy
Developing
Literacy
Early Independent
Literacy
Independent
Literacy
Expanding
Literacy
Stages of
Literacy Development
Building a Foundation for Literacy
Trusting Relationships
CommunicationExposure to literacy
Concept Development
Child Interests
B. Purvis and N. Steele, 2012
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ACTIVITY
ALL CHILDREN CAN READ
LITERACY SKILLS CHECKLIST
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LITERACY SKILLS CHECKLIST
SECTION 1
� Answer options:
YES - NO - SOMETIMES - DON’T KNOW
� Demonstrates little or no interest in people around him/her
� Uses behavior as communication
� Seems reluctant to engage in the environment
� Engages in self-stimulating behavior for a significant part of
the day
� Demonstrates behaviors that are difficult to interpret
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LITERACY SKILLS CHECKLIST
SECTION 1
� Answer options:
YES - NO - SOMETIMES - DON’T KNOW
� Demonstrates passive behavior
� Disengages when invited to participate in a learning activity
� Has little or no experience with rhythm activities
� Has little or no experience with books or stories
� Has little or no experience with literacy learning activities
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RESULTS
� If you answered YES or SOMETIMES to several of the
items above then Building a Foundation is where you
will want to begin on the literacy website.
� If you answered NO to most of the items above then
continue to the next section.
� If you answered DON’T KNOW to most of the items or
if no clear pattern exists it is suggested that you begin
with Building a Foundation
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http://literacy.nationaldb.org/
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BUILDING A FOUNDATION
FOR LITERACY
� Trusting Relationships
� Communication
� Exposure to Literacy
� Concept Development
� Child Interests
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DEVELOPING A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP
� Keep in mind the child’s past experiences
� Be predictable, dependable, and responsive
� Warn when you are not going to be predictable or
responsive
� Allow the child to direct conversations about their topic
� Expect, wait for, and acknowledge child’s responses
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PERCEPTION OF SAFETY
� When the child’s brain first senses your attempt to
instruct it will first determine if you are
⚫ Safe / dangerous
⚫ Novel / known
⚫ Positive (appetite)
⚫ Negative (aversive)
� Therefore, bonding is critical to instruction and tactile
exploration
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IF CHILD SEEMS TO BE “IN HIS OWN WORLD”
⚫Carefully observe
⚫Respectfully join
⚫Bonding in “his world” can encourage
feelings of safety to explore new and novel
topics
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HAND-UNDER-HAND
� When “helping” or “showing” something, let the person's
hand rest on top of yours
⚫ Non-controlling, respectful
⚫ Reduces the stress and discomfort
⚫ Allows a student to focus on correct stimulus and explore task
without obstructing experience
� Slower initially, but results in faster learning
� Encourages tactile exploration
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REMEMBER
Your behavior, touch, and attention
communicates too…often these words are more
clearly received than the spoken words!!!
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DEFINING LITERACY
literate (adj.) Having the ability to
read and write; Showing skill in
using words.
(Webster’s Dictionary. Landoll’s Inc., 1992)
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� The new definition focuses on a proficiency in
understanding and using written language, as well as
spoken language, as a reader, writer , speaker, and
listener.
Gerald Abner, February 26, 2016
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“WORDS” FOR STUDENTS WITH LIMITED
LANGUAGE
�Behaviors
�Gestures
�Object symbols
�Spoken words or approximations
�Pictures
�Tactile symbols
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MEANINGFUL EXPOSURE TO LITERACY
(WORDS)
� Establish routines around daily activities
� Decide ahead of time what words and concepts you want
to focus on during each routine
� Use hand under hand techniques, especially when
introducing new activities
� Promote active participation
Jarvis goes to the drum store
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Miles & Riggio, 1999 Remarkable Conversations, p. 57
“The child learns to communicate by being treated as a person who already communicates.”
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CRITICAL ROLE OF TVIS
� Help team members without training in blindness and
visual impairments consider key questions:
⚫ Are you close enough so the child knows you are there?
⚫ Are the cues you are using specific to and appropriate for the
child?
⚫ Does your pacing match that of the child?
⚫ Are you engaging in an action the child likes rather than
something you want the child to do?
⚫ Are you waiting for and expecting a response?
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JOINT ATTENTION
Two people focusing on the same object or activity,
monitoring each other’s attention and coordinating their
responses.
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JOINT ATTENTION
A child’s interest usually follows this order of development
(Miles, 1999):
� self
� people and objects as extensions of herself or as things to
be incorporated (put in the mouth)
� movements
� people as distinct in themselves
� in objects themselves
Perkins webcast
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MEET MAX
� CHARGE Syndrome⚫ No functional vision
⚫ Severe/Profound Hearing Loss
⚫ Cochlear Implant-Right side
� 19 years old
� Multi modal communicator⚫ ASL
⚫ Tactile Communication Cards
⚫ Auditory
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REVIEW
� What are your thoughts or questions about the literacy
checklist?
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REMINDERS
� Child will have to learn to trust and become curious enough to explore
� Be very systematic in the way you relay information so your interactions become predictable and student can anticipate
� Slow Down! Be sure to give plenty of processing time
� Don’t give up after a few tries
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RESOURCES
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RESOURCES
� http://literacy.nationaldb.org/
� www.nationaldb.org
� http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/
� http://www.perkinselearning.org/topics/literacy-and-braille
� http://www.tsbvi.edu/distance/communication/index.html
� http://tarheelreader.org/33
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Peggy Sinclair-Morris
Donna Carpenter, Ed.D.
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