Putting the training direction on improving children's ability solved my confusion. How to improve children's abilities and what abilities children have become the next questions to be answered. Mr. Chen's lecture closely follows this theme and explains all aspects of children's ability development in a simple way.
People often talk about cognitive ability, but they don't necessarily realize that cognitive ability is the basis of all training interventions, and even few people can clearly say what "cognition" refers to.
Teacher Chen decomposes cognition into a combination of "feeling-perception": feeling consists of feelings about the inner body and feelings about the external body, sound, gas, taste and touch; Perception is a sequential response to things (perception, discrimination, confirmation, etc.). We can't know exactly how children feel inside and outside, and we can only understand children's cognitive problems by observing their overall reaction to various things. Perception is the result of the synergy of multiple receptors, which accurately explains the complexity of children's problems in the pedigree, and also gives the objects that we need to focus on in training intervention, that is, the visual, auditory and motor abilities that play a key role in children's development.
This may be the sense of purpose and direction I have been hoping for, so as to clarify what we should train and intervene.
Teacher Chen showed us a simple diagram: a balance with "motion" as its fulcrum, with "sight" at one end and "hearing" at the other. This simple figure vividly illustrates the relationship between the three: exercise is the basis of all behavior and the beginning of wisdom; Exercise affects the development of visual and auditory abilities; Vision and hearing often have scenes where you are higher than me, and this change.
The importance of sports is beyond doubt. Ordinary children also start their lives through sports and play at the early stage of their growth, and many institutions have also set up physical education class. But how does exercise affect children's other abilities? How do we train children's sports? Are the training purposes of various physical education class in the market correct? Is the induction course just (or covers) sports? Teacher Chen also gave a clear answer.
It is not difficult to understand that sports affect children's behavior and socialization-children can't sit still and play. But this is only a superficial phenomenon, which is an indirect effect of insufficient exercise ability. What is really more important is the influence of exercise on vision, hearing and language. Understanding this more direct influence has important guiding significance for us to improve our children's ability in an all-round way.
Sports can be said to affect children's abilities in all aspects.
Then the purpose and methods of all kinds of sports training (including sensory training) we do for children may be questionable. According to the previous analysis, the fundamental purpose of sports is to improve children's strength, stability and flexibility, and to establish children's sense of space, not just to master a certain sport. Although sensory training may involve some sports, it focuses on the sensory stimulation of children, and its purpose is biased. In addition, in the actual institutional training or family training, because some details may be neglected, sports training can not really achieve the purpose of improving the above basic sports perception ability. Finally, children seem to have mastered quite fancy sports skills, but they have not made progress in other basic abilities such as cognition and language.
Visual ability is the basis of understanding, organization and logic. Many people don't understand this sentence. Some mothers will ask, my child has good eyesight but can't understand. The visual ability mentioned by Mr. Chen is not physical vision, but the ability to acquire and process visual information, which is the ability of visual perception.
Language itself (pronunciation or writing symbols) must be related to actual things or events to be meaningful, which is the beginning of understanding. The appearance attribute, color attribute, smell and feeling of things or events are related to many abilities such as vision, smell and touch, among which visual ability accounts for a considerable proportion, and the inductive ability required for classifying things mainly depends on vision. The improvement of visual ability plays an important role in improving children's thinking ability.
In the training content of teacher Chen's Xingbao going to school, visual ability training occupies a considerable proportion. In the process of drawing and writing, what is the causal relationship between improving children's visual ability, especially their perception of order and order? Teacher Chen also explained that it is very important to draw the prescribed figures, but how to draw them is more important. In the process of drawing, teachers' proper guidance can teach children ideas and methods, which is very important for children to learn to write and sequence events in the future. Furthermore, these are the foundations of thinking logic.
Language has always been a special concern for families with autism. Common language classes, even some oral muscle training, have little effect on many children. The main problem is still in training ideas.
Teacher Chen briefly listed several points, each of which may lead to language problems for children, but obviously, our intervention strategies for each situation are different:
These points are just a glimpse of the leopard in the tube, but they are enough to make us think: was the intervention on autistic children too superficial in the past, so that there was a sense of piecemeal? Teaching language through language is usually not feasible.
Socialization is also a concern of many people. Many organizations have designed various games for this purpose. Teacher Chen didn't write much about this question. But just like the language problem above, socializing for the sake of socializing is a difficult road after all. For many children, only by improving their basic ability can they start from "parallel socialization" like ordinary children and have the ability to cooperate and compete step by step, so that the social ability gained is real. What's more, the ability to imitate and obey instructions needed in the game class was originally obtained through the above basic training.
As teacher Chen said, there are many factors that affect children's grades, which need our careful observation and comprehensive consideration, but at the same time, we should also pay attention to key abilities. In training, understanding children's current abilities, designing appropriate courses, giving them appropriate difficulties, and accumulating in the cycle of "trying-assisting-canceling assistance-improving difficulty", from quantitative change to qualitative change, will definitely "empower" children to the maximum extent, so that their learning and living abilities can be improved to the maximum extent.
I have been exposed to audio-visual intervention methods for quite a long time. In my past consciousness, it was mysterious beyond the mainstream intervention plan. Teacher Chen Jie's lecture unveiled this mysterious veil, which made me more aware of its connection with mainstream academic viewpoints. It turned out that it was not a mysterious technology created out of thin air, but an educational technology with a complete practical scheme that could be derived from the academic achievements of the cognitive development school.
This lecture covered many academic viewpoints and concepts in just two and a half hours, and the dry goods were full. To be honest, it's quite difficult to fully understand. After all, each part is an independent research direction. It can be said that this lecture not only described the big picture of intervention training for me, but also pointed out my own learning direction, and I benefited a lot.
In the lecture and the subsequent case consultation, Teacher Chen said without hesitation that she and the whole team of Xingbao School are just like students who have just met the door, facing more complicated technical and academic details. She is passionate about all the achievements and technologies to be discovered.
Indeed, the complexity of the brain and nervous system determines that education, especially special education, is a difficult but far-reaching field. The openness of Xingbao school team in academic exchange and technical enjoyment is commendable and admirable. I sincerely hope that the Haizhu Center of Xingbao School can bring the best educational ideas and methods to children and parents in Guangzhou and help more special children and families get out of trouble.