Themed Activities for People with Learning Difficulties
by Orchard Hill College, Melinda Hutchinson
Description
User-friendly and practical, this is an excellent resource for all professionals looking to run creative sessions with people with profound and complex learning difficulties. Using a selection of twenty everyday objects, it provides resource materials, ideas and flexible structures to extend and complement professionals' existing approaches.
- Examines a range of teaching approaches, ideas for adapting activities and equipment, and how to present materials and tasks to the student.
- Provides ideas, work outlines, activities and methods, recording sheets and photocopiable materials.
- Can be used with individuals and groups in a variety of settings, including educational establishments, day provisions or at home.
- Designed to provide opportunities for participation at all ability levels. With the help of this book, the list of object-based activities is endless!
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Author Biography
Melinda Hutchinson is a lecturer at Orchard Hill College of Further Education, which provides courses for students with profound and complex learning difficulties. Her specialist area is the development and delivery of the Creative Cultural Studies curriculum. She leads workshops and training sessions for colleagues and other practitioners and is a licensed trainer for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher/Imprint Speechmark Publishing Limited / Speechmark Publishing
- Publication Date January 2003
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780863883071
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 39.99 GBP
- Pages240
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions297 x 210 mm
- Biblio NotesCopyright year: 2003