Techniques, and forms of teaching children with disabilities
Giving children the appropriate education is one of the essential terms in successful socialization, ensuring their full participation in society, and helps them succeed in various professional and social activities. Therefore, ensuring their right to proper education is one of the government’s biggest concerns.
Children with Disabilities Rights in KSA
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is determined to provide all means and techniques of educating children with disabilities to ensure that they have equal rights in education like all children.
The Kingdom’s role in ensuring proper education for all, including customizing and developing it to be comprehensive enough for all.
Hence, increasing the efficiency of the teaching methods taken by professional teachers in developmental education in addition to creating the perfect conditions to ensure high quality in modern global standards.
About intellectual disability
The concept of children with disabilities symbolizes children who have problems with brain intelligence that makes it incompatible with the child’s biological age.
Those who fall into this state are those who are mentally incompetent, same as children with Down syndrome, which is one of the most common intellectual disabilities.
This state also includes conditions that affect an individual’s ability to learn, such as autism (autism spectrum disorder), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and specific learning problems such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia.
The educational needs of children with disabilities vary according to their different categories, It’s determined by the state of their growth disorders.
Therefore, the current trends towards providing many special curricula for building the educational process, which is reflected in the structure and content of education, taking care of the psychological and health status of each child.
Developing the talents of children with disabilities
The majority of students with disabilities have an insufficient level of cognitive activity, immaturity of motivation for learning activities, and a low level of competence and independence.
Therefore, the search for active teaching methods is one of the necessary ways to increase the effectiveness of the educational process for the teacher’s job.
The goals of school education, which the state and society set and the family aspires to, fall mostly on the most responsibilities of the school, in addition to its role in acquiring a certain set of knowledge and skills for the child.
Our school trains children with disabilities and who suffer from diseases related to intellectual disabilities, using many traditional and non-traditional methods that allow solving a complex set of problems they face in the studying process.
The teaching methods followed by Rowad Al Khaleej Schools are offered to help children to perceive the surrounding reality, and it’s the path that will enhance the nature of mental growth and the possibilities of absorbing knowledge in the child, and these methods will shape the student’s characteristics.
Teaching Methods in Rowad Al Khaleej Schools
Methods used by the school to communicate new knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Conversation and communication, observation and work with a book, playing and exercising, laboratory and hands-on work, explanation and storytelling and illustration,
The use of this group of methods allows to stimulate children’s cognitive activity and supports their independence.
It also provides ways to work with technical teaching aids: multimedia presentations, watching video tutorials.
The story
A story is a form of presenting educational materials, a verbal description of events, facts and phenomena in nature and society, and it revolves around the life of an individual or a group of people told by the teacher in specific ways to test the extent of comprehension and ability to communicate and understand feelings and events in the story.
Story essentials:
- Clarity
(choosing the easiest and best to remember and learn)
- Coherence
(the story should have a clear structure: beginning, development, climax, the end)
- Accuracy of factual materials
The story should touch the student’s personal experience, and relate to local conditions and events so that the teacher can monitor all the emotions shown on the students.
- Interpretation
Which is the method of mastering the theoretical educational material and defining a cognitive task on the part of the teacher.
Conversational method
It’s a form of education based on the question-and-answer idea of mastering the learning material. The main condition for using this method is adherence to a strict system of well-thought-out questions and the expected answers from students.
Questions should be coherent, subject to the main idea, and outlined in a way that students understand the topic of conversation.
Working with the school book
One of the most effective ways to master the educational material is for students to work with the schoolbook. Where the student acquires skills and abilities to focus by working with the book.
Requirements:
- Each student must be able to find the subject being studied.
- The teacher should give short and clear instructions on how to complete the required task.
- Students should be aware of the main purpose of the book, and the main points of the exercises.
Demonstration method
The demonstration method allows students to develop and identify a circle of initial ideas, enriching and organizing the experience of children,
On the other hand, children with determination should observe an object or phenomenon in the presentation, highlight its main features, and then make a comparison to illustrate the connection of the objects used in the demonstration with each other.
Notes and laboratory work: The main objective is to upgrade and monitor students’ independent work skills.
Field trips and tours
Guided tours are also one of the most popular teaching methods.
Its value lies in the fact that children learn to observe objects and phenomena in real natural conditions, which is one of the methods of great educational value in general and especially for children with disabilities.
Practical method
It’s a method based on the use of games, fun exercises, and competitions. Thus, it becomes clear to you that the teaching methods used in Rowad Al Khaleej schools are methods that are implemented based on communication, and the cognitive abilities of children with disabilities are taken into consideration.
And It also includes providing the studied materials for each lesson in simple parts, Complex concepts and lesson segments increase and become into simple parts, which makes it easy to absorb.
Repetition method
Repetition helps children reach the required level of progress and absorb, directing students to the tasks to be performed. This must be done in cooperation between teacher and student.
As we mentioned earlier, children with disabilities represent a very diverse group of different conditions.
Therefore, the priority in working with these children is an individual approach, paying attention to the health status of each child.
It’s very important to contact their parents to find out all the features of the child’s mental growth.
To implement some of the mentioned teaching methods, a very high level of competence of teachers is required to form the ability of students to use the information presented to them, and the ability to look for ways to solve problems.
Therefore, Rowad Al Khaleej Schools provide additional assistance from specialists:
specialized teachers, behavior specialists, speech therapists, psychiatrists, and neurologists.
We also care about physical exercises that yield great results, and sometimes promise to create champions in some games as the trainers seek to extract the full talents of the child,
By supplementing it with several physical activities that show his success, then upgrade that success to produce a champion.
Developing the abilities of children with disabilities
The problem of educating and developing children with disabilities has witnessed a significant increase in our society. Therefore, we focus on providing those children with the appropriate conditions to gain decent education, starting from home and up to school.
The end goal is to help them qualify for better careers and jobs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
We seek to make this category of children a source of pride and glory instead of the prevailing idea that they are just an affliction or a heavy burden on any family that has a child of this category.
With quality education based on the latest scientific teaching methods, the child can become as productive and functional as other children