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

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

do you know of a wire guide like four circles in a square that may help with placing pots in the right spot?

Bryan Schulz

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  From: Dr. Denise M. Robinson 
  To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List ; 2010-teacher-of-tomorrow at nfbnet.org 
  Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:47 AM
  Subject: [Pibe-division] Hot Stoves- Blind or Sighted--Teaching Tricks


  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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