[Pibe-division] Hot Stoves- Blind or Sighted--Teaching Tricks

[Dr. Denise M. Robinson]

Hot Stoves- Blind or Sighted--Teaching Tricks 
I always think about the tricks I use for teaching the blind and realize almost all the same techniques work great for sighted too. How many 
sighted people have placed their hand on a burning stove? Yep, me too! 
LOL! We are a funny bunch of human beings.

As I take my students into the kitchen, the first thing we do is feel EVERYTHING with it off. They feel every burner, or flat cooking surface, all dials, open oven 
and pretty much almost climb inside. They need to feel every corner, 
racks, pull out and in, feel what they will need to clean on the bottom 
when something spills over. I relieve their fear on this immediately. Yes, food will spill over and YOU will have to clean it. They practice using oven-mitts while pulling the racks in and out of the oven. Then they practice with heavier dishes so they can get the idea of how much harder the rack is to pull out with 
weight on it. All with the stove off! Same thing for the burners, 
lifting different sizes and pans of water off and on the burners. story continued on http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/

 
       Denise 
 
Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor
Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training
509-674-1853     deniserob at gmail.com
 
http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
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