Self‐Directed Achievement, Perceptual Development, and
FlashSonar: an Overview
May 4-5, 2012
8:30am – 4:00pm
5 Strongly Agree 4 Slightly Agree 3 Neutral 2 Slightly Disagree 1 Strongly Disagree
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Course objectives clearly defined |
4.07 |
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Overall content and format met course objectives |
4.20 |
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Workshop speakers were knowledgeable and well organized |
4.53 |
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Handouts/reading assignments were clear and useful |
4.38 |
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Videos were meaningful |
4.73 |
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Class activities were relevant to the topic |
4.93 |
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Did you gain new knowledge or skills |
5.00 |
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Did the course reinforce or refine your present skills |
4.93 |
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Will the course make a difference in the work that you do |
5.00 |
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Overall |
4.6 |
Logistics
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Meeting arrangements met your needs |
4.8 |
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Publicity was timely |
4.7 |
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Registration was organized |
4.8 |
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Overall |
4.8 |
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15 survey responses |
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What did you learn during today’s sessions that you anticipate using in your work?
- Assessing cane height differently
- Requesting more exploration
- Level of work with families needs to be increased
- How to do clicking and echo info
- More neurological understanding of perception
- What freedom is for the blind
- Different strategies of teacher concepts
- Principles of echo sonar in the educational process
- Clicking and becoming more aware of exploring
- Teaching echolocation.
- Hand grasp on the cane
- Use of flash sonar
- Use of longer cane and different grasps
- I will begin trails of clicking with students
- Core techniques
- Self-familiarization skills
- Brain atrophy if not used will impact brain development
- Teaching sensitization, clarification, stimulus comparison and stimulus association
- Using more echolocation
- How to teach it
- Methods of echo location
- Including echo location into working with students
- Teaching active echo location skills
What is the most valuable thing you learned today (knowledge or skills)?
- How to instruct/coach a person to more attentively use sound
- Use sound to improve orientation
- How to orient a blind person to an unknown space
- Hopefully freedom
- How to click
- Clicking is a process. It changes with location.
- Clients need to be willing along with families to be into the system
- How to teach echolocation and its use
- Self-directed movement
- Good discussion on brain training
- Movement stimulates brain development
- Experience drives classification systems
- Perceptual development is driven by experience
- Freedom
- Things you can use echo location for during O&M
- Being open to these techniques
- Notes and Daniel’s website for further knowledge so I can incorporate techniques with students
- How to click and determine if an object is close or not
- The value of self-directed exploration and movement for young students who are blind
Additional training you would be interested in:
a) On this topic:
a. Bring Daniel back
b. Videos of lessons
c. Echolocation teaching clients-observe lesson
d. More in-depth training
e. Curriculum
f. Practice with other COMS to develop skills with techniques
g. Work on objectives for training
b) Other topics:
a. iPhone GPS applications
b. counseling skills that can be used with the client
c. How to word IEP’s to emphasis the need for O&M’s
d. CVI
Additional comments:
· 2-days of lecture kept my attention because of Daniel’s level of expertise
· Wish we had a consumer here to teach the skills to
· Fabulous
· Great Speaker, very knowledgeable, enjoyable
· Would have like to see training in action-with either a live model or additional videos
· Some pre-reading or handouts to direct instructional focus would have been helpful
· Great class
· Very interesting and educational
· Presentation could have been more structured but Daniel was very flexible and responsive to questions
· Very thought provoking