[Home-on-the-range] Fwd: April Monitor defines SDL

[Susan Tabor]

Thanks, Dianne!

Susan

 

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From: Dianne Hemphill <DIANNEHEMPHILL at COX.NET>

Subject: April Monitor defines SDL

Date: April 4, 2012 4:04:39 PM CDT

To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>

Cc: Dianne Hemphill <diannehemphill at cox.net>, jackhemphill at aol.com

 

Just when we needed this easy to find explanation  of the training method
the NFB refers to as Structured Discovery Learning (SDL), the April Braille
Monitor gives it to us! Jeff Altman, Travel instructor at the Nebraska
Center f/t Blind, provides an excellent overview of why the SDL can be such
a practical approach for training the blind/visually impaired. There are
many who question the approach , mainly because they fear blindness and
can't comprehend how by learning blindness skills till they are second
nature can benefit both those without vision and those with some useful
though unreliable vision. 

The use of sleep shades is one of the most controversial techniques used in
SDL as is the requirement to use the white cane at all times during
training. Jeff explains how being able to use blindness skills effectively
actually allows the use of one's remaining vision  to be more effective.
This is because one can make a more informed decision on what makes the most
sense to us individually because we know what the choices are and how useful
it is to us personally.  SDL is so much more than skills training as it
fosters the development of enhanced confidence and independence . Skills
are, of course taught, but it is the way they are taught that makes the
difference between this method and the traditional training approach...as
well as the anticipated outcomes for  greater personal freedom and
employability.  Let's hear from those of you who have questions as well as
those of us that better understand SDL and its possibilities . Find this
info in "When the Sleep Shades Come Off".  Dianne

 

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