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DESCRIPTION: The name "Perkins" carved in stone.
Below a gothic tower, a boy navigates with a cane.
TORREY: Children who have multiple disabilities
including blindness and deaf/blindness
have special challenges in developing communication skills.
And to support that, we need to find other ways,
multisensory ways, to help them achieve those goals
of relating to their peers, establishing communication
with families, expressing their needs, being able to say,
"Hey, I'm thirsty, I need a drink."
How about, "I need to use the bathroom," or to make a choice
about what games and things that they want to play with?
What's their favorite activity?
And the way that we'll get to know that is by offering
these children choices.
Let's make another choice, Jen.
DESCRIPTION: In a video clip, a teacher presents a young girl
who is blind two tangible symbol cards.
TORREY: Robby the rabbit, or we do the hokey pokey?
DESCRIPTION: One has a small stuffed rabbit attached,
the other, a wooden block with a hole in the middle.
The girl chooses the rabbit, and is shown playing
with the large rabbit toy.
TORREY: The difficulty arises when so many of the students
that we're working with here can't just say what they want.
They don't have verbal language.
So in order to give them a way... a means to express
themself, we have to find other routes, and something
that we found really, really works is using
tangible symbols with these students.
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