An example of a visually impaired student’s learning geometry

Vol. 6 No. 4

Year: 2013

 
Issue: Feb-Apr

Title : An example of a visually impaired student’s learning geometry

 

Author Name: Diana Cheng

 

Synopsis :

Students with special needs often require additional assistance in order to learn at the university level. This article documents a professor’s efforts in teaching a visually impaired prospective elementary school teacher geometry content knowledge.  The goal of this article is to shed light upon the iterative process of accommodating for individual needs of students.  The author highlights the persistence and creative problem solving required for helping this student, with the hope that other faculty members will provide the due help to their special needs students with the same persistence.

Title : Effect of Educational Games on Social Skills in Iranian Mentally Retarded Children Author Name : Zohreh Shakibaei, Flora Rahimaghaee, Masoumeh Arish Synopsis : There is about 1.5 to 3 million of exceptional children in Iran. By this great population, educational system of Iran must undoubtedly pay special attention to these children. One of the most distinct characteristics of these people is their inability to establish effective communication with the society. Current research was conducted to investigate the efficacy of educational games on the ability of social skills in mentally retarded girls aging 8-12 years. This study was semi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test. The sample group contained 20 mentally retarded girls according to the research criteria which Whole of them were selected because of a small number of cases. 10 of them were randomly assigned to the test group, while the other 10 were assigned to the control group. The test group was trained the social skills using directed educational games, while the control group followed the normal trend of the class. Wailand’s social growth test was applied to both groups. In this study, ANCOVA was used for analysis. Results suggest that the experience group has significantly higher scores as compared to the control group. This finding is in agreement with those of other researchers and indicates capabilities of the educational games in improving the ability of social skills.