Project SALUTE
Successful Adaptations for Learning to Use Touch Effectively

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This page includes the the discussion questions for sharing your experiences, successes and challenges. Post your questions and concerns about tactile learning strategies. Please sign your messages with your name, role (e.g., parent, teacher, adminstrator and your state. Looking forward to our conversations! The link at the bottom connects to the On-Line Discussion.

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Student Instruction Discussion Questions

1. How do you decide which tactile communication strategies (coactive signs, sign on body, tactile signs, touch cues, object cues, textured symbols) to use with a student who is deaf-blind?

2. How can a child who is deaf-blind differentiate between a touch cue and a tactile sign?

3. How do you determine which mode of sensory input provides the most useful information in a particular context for a child who is deaf- blind?

4. How do you determine whether to use a textured symbol or object cue so that the child will understand what it represents?

5. How do you know what a child is learning (e.g., understands language/communication input)? How do you determine the next step?

6. What challenges have you encountered in adapting visual materials or activities so that they are accessible to a child who is deaf-blind?

Staff Training Discussion Questions

7. How do you explain the differences between hand-over-hand and hand-under-hand guidance and when do you use them?

8. What methods have you found effective in training teaching assistants/interveners to use tactile strategies with students who are deaf-blind?


9. What strategies have you used to ensure that team members are consistent in their use of tactile strategies with students who are deaf-blind?

General Interest Questions and Discussion

10. If you have a question, post it here.

Directions

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To add your comments to any discussion, click on the POST button and follow the directions.

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SALUTE is a model demonstration project funded by the U.S. Department of Education grant #H324T990025 to California State University, Northridge from September 1, 1999 to August 30, 2003.