Learning DisabilitiesUnderstanding Differences in Learning

and How to Design for Them

Pełnosprawny Student VKraków, 15 listopada 2011 r.

What is disability?

Medical Model

• deficiency, abnormal

• in the individual

• improve individual

• professional is expert

Social Model

• difference, normal

• in the interaction

• improve interaction

• individual is expert

Human Variation Model

a mismatch between how an individual’s characteristics/abilities and society’s design

Learning Disability as…

a mismatch between how an individual learns and how she/he is taught

Learning AbilitiesWhat abilities are necessary for learning?

Learning Abilities

How do individuals learn?

•Listening (Auditory)

•Seeing (Visual)

•Doing (Kinesthetic)

Differences in Thinking and Communicating

•Verbal

•Non-Verbal

•Global

•Linear

Teaching MethodsHow do instructors

teach?

LecturingWriting

Demonstrating

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LecturesMultiple Choice Exams

Papers

Pop QuizzesOral PresentationsStudios/LabsWeb-based Material

Educational Design

Inclusive Design•Information in multiple formats

{spoken, written, modeled}

•More time for reading, exams, papers

•Different options for evaluation{test, paper, project}

Support and ServicesTesting Adjustments

• Additional time• Use of computer• Reader/scribe

Assistive Technology• Reading/writing software

Notetaking Assistance• Copies of notes• Recording technologies

Educate Others

Learning Differences

Inclusive Design

Dziękuję za uwagę

Molly Sirois

Program Developer/Consultant Accessible Education Center

University of Oregon

sirois@uoregon.edu

Projekt jest współfinansowany ze środków Fundacji im. Stefana Batorego oraz Gminy Miejskiej Kraków

Patronat honorowy: Partner: Patroni medialni: