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<a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/10/hot-stoves-blind-or-sighted-teaching.html">Hot Stoves- Blind or Sighted--Teaching Tricks</a>
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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.<br>
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As I take my students into the kitchen, the first thing we do is feel EVERYTHING <b>with it off</b>.
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. <b>Yes,</b> food will spill over and <b>YOU</b>
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/<br><div> </div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Brush Script MT';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:18pt;"><font color="#4040ff"> Denise </font></span></div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Brush Script MT';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:18pt;"></span> </div><div>Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br>Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br>TechVision-Independent Contractor</div><div>Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training</div><div>509-674-1853 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com"> deniserob@gmail.com</a></div><div> </div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a></div><div> </div></div></body></html>