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    Coffin Assignment6

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    The document discusses how a teacher named Mrs. Wright can help include a student named Marisol in her classroom. Marisol is legally blind due to a condition called retinopathy of immaturity. Mrs. Wright should give Marisol additional support, such as reading aloud information on the board and labeling areas of the classroom in braille. She should also help Marisol develop literacy and social skills.

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    The document discusses how a teacher named Mrs. Wright can help include a student named Marisol in her classroom. Marisol is legally blind due to a condition called retinopathy of immaturity. Mrs. Wright should give Marisol additional support, such as reading aloud information on the board and labeling areas of the classroom in braille. She should also help Marisol develop literacy and social skills.

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    The document discusses how a teacher named Mrs. Wright can help include a student named Marisol in her classroom. Marisol is legally blind due to a condition called retinopathy of immaturity. Mrs. Wright should give Marisol additional support, such as reading aloud information on the board and labeling areas of the classroom in braille. She should also help Marisol develop literacy and social skills.

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    The document discusses how a teacher named Mrs. Wright can help include a student named Marisol in her classroom. Marisol is legally blind due to a condition called retinopathy of immaturity. Mrs. Wright should give Marisol additional support, such as reading aloud information on the board and labeling areas of the classroom in braille. She should also help Marisol develop literacy and social skills.

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    Questions

    1. What kind of disability does Marisol have?

    Marisol is described as having developed retinopathy of immaturity due to her premature birth,
    and as a result, she is able to see shadows but is unable to see images. This would mean that
    Marisol is legally blind.

    2. What problems might be expected because of her disability?

    Marisol might be expected to have delayed motor skills and conceptual abilities, as well as
    difficulties with functional skills.

    3. What should Mrs. Wright do to help prepare Marisol and her classmates for including
    Marisol fully in the classroom?

    Mrs. Wright should remember that Marisol must rely upon other sensory modalities to gather
    information about her surroundings where others may use vision. Mrs. Wright should always call
    Marisol’s name when addressing her, read aloud whatever information she writes on the board,
    allow Marisol additional time to complete tasks, and give explicit instructions. As Marisol
    develops competency with reading braille, Mrs. Wright should label areas in the class with
    braille, such as the pencil sharpener, bathroom, etc. Mrs. Wright should offer Marispol explicit
    instruction in listening skills and work to minimize auditory distractions in the classroom. Finally,
    Mrs. Wright should support Marisol’s training in orientation and mobility, whether by maintaining
    the position of items in the classroom, teaching other students in the classroom how to act
    around a guide dog, and posting tactile maps in the classroom to provide directions to areas like
    the library, cafeteria, recess area, and fire exit.

    4. What should Mrs. Wright do to help Marisol in the following areas:

    Literacy development - Marisol’s disability should not have a significant effect on her ability to
    understand and use language. For reading instruction, Mrs. Wright will need to provide Marisol
    with access to a specialist who can provide Marisol with 1 ½ to 2 hours daily instruction in how
    to read and write using braille as well as a variety of braille texts. This can be supplemented or
    used in connection with audiobooks.

    Social skills and interaction - Marisol might benefit from explicit instruction in practices which
    could ease social interaction, such as how and when to use visual social cues and to intervene
    to reduce or eliminate stereotypic behaviors which are injurious or interfere in learning or
    socialization.

    5. What specialized technology might be necessary to help Marisol fully succeed?


    Marisol might benefit from the use of a screen reader to make use of a computer as well as a
    braille notetaker in which Marisol can take notes in braille which can then be transferred to
    another computer or read aloud by the notetaker’s speech synthesizer. Mrs. Wright can make
    use of descriptive video service, when available, to supplement videos shown in class. Marisol
    might benefit from playing and practicing with audio games to develop her orientation and
    mobility skills.

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