Supporting a student with visual impairment in MFL lessons
There is a student in year 6 at Scheeleskolan who has a visual impairment of a special kind. He can see different colours and shapes, but the borders of objects appear to be blurred. He is not able to read small letters. This boy is learning Spanish.
To help him, his teacher uses extra thick whiteboard markers in black colour. She adapts and prints exercises from the Spanish workbook, using a special font and text size: Verdana, 48 points, which the student is able to read. During written vocabulary tests in class, the teacher takes him just outside the classroom and has the boy answer the questions orally, because that is easier for him than to write down the answers. Meanwhile she leaves the other students under the supervision of an assistant who is there to help the visually impaired boy. Sometimes his teacher lets her students play kahoot. To help the SEN student, she points at the alternative answers that are projected onto the white screen, pronouncing each word clearly in Spanish, in a way that can benefit all the students in the classroom.
There is a student in year 6 at Scheeleskolan who has a visual impairment of a special kind. He can see different colours and shapes, but the borders of objects appear to be blurred. He is not able to read small letters. This boy is learning Spanish.
To help him, his teacher uses extra thick whiteboard markers in black colour. She adapts and prints exercises from the Spanish workbook, using a special font and text size: Verdana, 48 points, which the student is able to read. During written vocabulary tests in class, the teacher takes him just outside the classroom and has the boy answer the questions orally, because that is easier for him than to write down the answers. Meanwhile she leaves the other students under the supervision of an assistant who is there to help the visually impaired boy. Sometimes his teacher lets her students play kahoot. To help the SEN student, she points at the alternative answers that are projected onto the white screen, pronouncing each word clearly in Spanish, in a way that can benefit all the students in the classroom.