Working With Students With Disabilities

 

Objective

 

At the end of this training, tutors will be able to:

  1. Express an understanding of overall disability issues
  2. Identify strategies for effectively communicating with students with disabilities (SWD).
  3. Identify strategies for tutoring SWD
  4. Identify their personal level of comfort for working with SWD.

 

Subject Matter

 

  1. Disability Awareness and History
  2. Communication Skills
    1. General communication
    2. Communicating with SWD
  3. Tutoring SWD
  4. Learning Disabilities and the effect on student success
  5. Type of disabilities. 
  6. Strategies for identifying and increasing comfort level while working with SWD.

 

Teaching Strategy

  1. Direct Instruction
  2. Interactive group activity
    1. Understanding perception (color chart)
  3. Small group discussions
  4. Group reporting
  5. Video

 

Materials

  1. Color chart
  2. Ten Commandments handout
  3. Video (“10 Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities”)
  4. Audiograms
  5. Tutoring exercise handouts
    1. Earplugs
  6. Overheads
  7. Color Chart

 

Assessment

  1. Immediate written feedback
  2. Observation of tutors
  3. Tutor interviews

 

Self-Assessment

            (Instructor comments on the session.)