Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Needsby Gerber and Guay provide excellent lesson plans/ideas for students with Learning Disabilities. A few examples include:
1. A Mood View of Me--Self Portraits in Paint: using colors to show student's personalities.
2. My Shoe as a Still Life:drawing their own shoes as a still life.
3. Free-Standing Found Object Sculpture: creating a sculpture of an imaginary creature or machine.
Lesson Plans from Princetonol:
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/special2.htm
B/VI Strategies
For People who are Blind or Have Low Vision
•Gel paint leaves a raised bead when dry, providing tactile definition.
•Add sand to tempera.
•Use high contrast paper and materials, especially black and white.
•Try sparkling or shiny paper, bold colors.
•Use collage materials that make a textured surface: scrunched tissue paper, fabric, cotton balls.
•Place paper inside a tray with raised edges to help define the boundaries.
•Notch paper in one corner to designate the top and the bottom.
•Set up or line up materials in open containers or trays. Tell people which material is first, second, third.
•Use thick cord taped to the floor to mark performance spaces.
•Attach a string or rope to opposite walls of a room for people can use as a guide in movement classes.
•Gel paint leaves a raised bead when dry, providing tactile definition.
•Add sand to tempera.
•Use high contrast paper and materials, especially black and white.
•Try sparkling or shiny paper, bold colors.
•Use collage materials that make a textured surface: scrunched tissue paper, fabric, cotton balls.
•Place paper inside a tray with raised edges to help define the boundaries.
•Notch paper in one corner to designate the top and the bottom.
•Set up or line up materials in open containers or trays. Tell people which material is first, second, third.
•Use thick cord taped to the floor to mark performance spaces.
•Attach a string or rope to opposite walls of a room for people can use as a guide in movement classes.
D/HI Strategies
For People Who Are Deaf or Have Hearing Disabilities
•Include visual props and cues.
•Face people when you are talking.
•Invite people to feel vibrations.
•Write out words related to activity, instructions, post large enough for everyone to see.
•Avoid dimming lights that might inhibit the use of vision.
•Include visual props and cues.
•Face people when you are talking.
•Invite people to feel vibrations.
•Write out words related to activity, instructions, post large enough for everyone to see.
•Avoid dimming lights that might inhibit the use of vision.
Resources for Deaf/Hearing Impaired
Art Education and Disability Resources:
http://people.unt.edu/~say0005/deafness.htm
Adapting Art Materials:
http://www.vsavt.org/professional-development/adapting-materials/
http://people.unt.edu/~say0005/deafness.htm
Adapting Art Materials:
http://www.vsavt.org/professional-development/adapting-materials/
ED Lesson Plan
Centering on...Using art activities to Enrich the Curriculum for Special Education Students
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED358602.pdf
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED358602.pdf
Beneficial Effects on ED...
The beneficial effects of art on ED children.
http://www.helium.com/items/212247-the-beneficial-effects-of-art-education-on-emotionally-disturbed-children
http://www.helium.com/items/212247-the-beneficial-effects-of-art-education-on-emotionally-disturbed-children
ED Articles
Excellent articles on 'Teacher who work magic with emotionally disturbed children'
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/12/19/teacher-works-magic-with-emotionally-disturbed-children/
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/12/19/teacher-works-magic-with-emotionally-disturbed-children/
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