Observing Visually Impaired Children Learning Through Play

Demonstrate learning through play for children with visual impairment

Playful experiences support all children in practising and developing a breadth of skills that are essential for them to thrive and successfully navigate a complex and ever-changing world.

This short course will introduce you to a tool designed to provide a shared understanding and methodology of playful experiences for children with visual impairment. This knowledge will help you observe, reflect upon, and improve children’s playful experiences.

Learn how to improve blind children’s playful learning

The Learning through Play Experience Tool is designed to provide facilitators and designers with a comprehensive framework for understanding and enhancing children’s play experiences. 

Throughout this course, you’ll learn how to use this tool to improve a child’s play experiences, particularly for children with visual impairments.  This tool ensures the children develop all five essential skills, physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and creative. 

You’ll also delve further into more nuanced concepts, including the characteristics of play and behavioural coding.

Gain insights from experts  in play-based learning 

By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped to advocate for and design equal access and quality learning experiences for all children.

Take your curiosity further and bring joy to all children by joining another course from the LEGO Foundation to gain more tools to support children with visual impairments in teaching environments, including [Learning Through Play with LEGO® Braille Bricks] (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-braille-through-play-with-lego-braille-bricks).

This course is primarily designed for Teachers for the Visually Impaired (TVIs) as well as practitioners, assistants, and other specialised professionals working with children with visual challenges.

• The specificities of play for children with blindness
• Welcome to the course
• The state of non-play
• The characteristics of play
• The Learning through Play Experience Tool
• Coding for the characteristics of play
• Let's start coding
• Characteristic: JOYFUL
• Characteristic: ACTIVELY ENGAGING
• Characteristic: MEANINGFUL
• Characteristic: ITERATIVE
• Characteristic: SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE
• Next steps
• Applying the Learning Through Play Experience Tool in practice
• Dynamic coding
• A tactile observation grid
• Testimonials
• Final steps