2ND DAY Residential training program SRL Trivandrum REPORT

 

Friday December 31st 2021

Report of the Day 2  (31/12/ 2021) click here for a pdf file

Residential training program SRL Trivandrum

The second day of Residential training programmme commenced by 8:45 a.m and it ended by 8:30 p.m. A briefing of report of Day -1 residential training program was done by Sri. R C Gopalan around 9 a.m.

Sri Satyapalan gave an insight on few tests such as:

a)  Seguine foam test (This test is a non verbal intelligence test)

b) Learning style inventory (This test consists of 45 questions. & It covers VAKT(Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Tactile aspect of a child )

c) Ravens progressive matrices,

d) WESIC

e) WISC

f) Colour Matrices

Shri Satyapalan also revised aspects related to phonological awareness.

For eg.ab bab cab

                        ad bad Cad

                        at bat cat

                        an ban Can

                        ag bag Cag

                        and on CVC (consonants vowels consonant) words

He further introduced us to improvised materials. These materials are few tools which can be made at home using empty cardboard boxes, PVC pipes, spiral notebooks, tongue cleaners etc. They are cost effective and can be recreated according to the needs of a child to be intervened and given remediation. Next level of the training was an activity.

 8 different Groups were formed and each group were assigned with a material and was instructed to evaluate the case based on few questions:

1) What is the content of this material ?

2) Can you use this for remediation or intervention ?

3) If useful which area dealt with this book ?

4) How this book/ material is useful for remediation and intervention ?

5) How is the content arranged/organised to acquire skills?

6) What are the innovative ideas/adaptable strategies used in this material for children with  disabilities?.

7) What are the limitations/strength of this material when using for children with SLD ?

8) How can we supplement other materials/activities along with this?

Each group covered areas related to mathematics. The first and second group covered basic mathematics. The remaining 3^rd to 8th group covered Mental Math 1 2 3 4 5 levels respectively and the 8th Group dealt with numeracy.

By 11:45 a.m. Mrs Prashanthini and Mrs Ramya resumed maths class. We were introduced to Racks and Tubes. This tool is used for division along with  writing the problem and solving. Both of them demonstrated solving  division problems using Rack and tubes.

Picture 1 : Racks and Tubes

Our second session was introduction to English learning and intervention activities and Apparatus.

(Note: prior to this learning it must be made sure that the child should develop pre -writing skills and hence few tools/Apparatus are used). such as:

a) Drawing insets or Metal Insets

Picture 2 : Drawing insets or Metal Insets

Once the child has acquired Pre writing skill, he is introduced to vowels initially as a part of writing. Vowels (in blue colour) and Consonants (in pink colour)

The striking part here is letters are not in normal writing. It is in cursives.

(Note -after acquiring phonological knowledge and awareness, the child is introduced to cursive writing. The importance of cursive over normal writing is it enhances fine movement wrist movement with Precision and fine Motor skills. Here the child is made to run his two fingers (index and Middle) on the Sandpaper letters.

 The next level introduced to a child is Movable Alphabet Box

Picture 3 : Movable Alphabet Box

This box consists of few envelopes, compartments and Rows. The topmost row contains letters with vowels ( in blue colour ) the bottom rows with various compartments consists of consonants (in pink colour) Each compartment has 5 to 6 letters. Here the child is asked to Pick a picture from an envelope. And he is further instructed  to create a word using the picture chosen. For example “bag”. Now, he is asked to spell using phonetics. that is first sound second sound and third. And finally instructed to pronounce the word joining the letters from this box.

    (Note: Here, The 3 letter word should be very familiar to the child CVC words are first taught.)

 Diphthongs are introduced in the next step,

 Diphthong is a sound formed by the combination of two single letters with different phonemes forming a new sound word. That is sh, oi, gh, ou etc.(Fish, Coin , enough, loud) One of the most interesting part of the session was introduction to parts of speech. How a child is taken to next level by introducing Verb, Noun, Article, Adjective, Pronoun, Preposition Conjunction,Iinterjection. A child is first given few symbols representing Verb, Noun, Article etc. These symbols are of various shapes sizes and colour representing each part of a sentence. This mode of representation helps child form a correct pattern of meaningful sentence & grammar

- A REPORT BY DOCTOR AJITHA