Faculty of Education · Special Education Teaching · Undergraduate
ECTS: 4 T+P+L: 2+0+0 Field Education Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Esra TÜRK
Course Objective
Teaching orientation and independent movement techniques for visually impaired people.
Course Content
Sensory differentiation, distinguishing concepts, searching methods, orientation skills, walking techniques with tracking and guidance, teaching of cane techniques.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Uses your hearing skills.
- Distinguish tactile stimuli.
- Distinguish visual stimuli.
- Distinguishes odor-based stimuli
- Distinguish kinesthetic stimuli.
- According to body size and position relationships.
- Explains the environmental / architectural concepts encountered in the building.
- Search by parallel search method.
- Search by grid search method.
- Search by circular search method.
- Uses tips, marks, compass directions.
- Man walks by hand on wall.
- High and low arm protection technique.
- Ask for help.
- He walks with the guide, changes sides, enters the door, leaves the staircase.
- The cane opens-closes, holds the cane correctly.
- Walk through the wall with cross cane technique.
- With a cane, the stairway descends and leaves the door.
- He uses a cane with escalator, he uses the elevator and passes through the revolving door.
- It locates its destination safely in routes inside and outside the building.
- Shows how to use the cane when you lose the sidewalk due to obstacles in its path.
- Shows what he / she should do to safely cross the street with and without traffic light.
- He understands that the bus is coming, he rides in a proper way.
Core Area Distribution
(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%20
Teaching Methods
ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionExercise and PracticePresentationGuided PracticeRole PlayingGroup StudySimulationCase Study
Assessment & Evaluation
Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Midterm | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Practice | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definition of independent movement. | Access to related resources |
| 2 | Analysis and application of sensory discrimination skills. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 3 | Ability to distinguish the concepts of skills analysis and implementation. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 4 | Analyze and apply search methods. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 5 | Definition of orientation skills, application. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 6 | Follow-up skills analysis and applications. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 7 | Walking skill analysis and practices with guide. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 8 | Midterm | Midterm |
| 9 | High arm-low arm protection technique and guided walking techniques. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 10 | Techniques of using cane skills analysis, application. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 11 | Analysis and application of pendulum cane technique. | Processing of the weekly subject from the relevant source. |
| 12 | Analysis and application of cross cane technique. | Processing of weekly subject related sources. |
| 13 | Course assignment, related videos. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 14 | Walking on the sidewalk with a walking skill analysis, sensible surface studies. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 15 | Passing through places with an audio traffic device, walking and landing applications. | Processing of the weekly topic from relevant sources. |
| 16 | Final | Final |