Natalia Villa Jiménez

‘Teaching Strategies in Inclusive Classrooms with Deaf Students’ is an article written by Stephanie W. Cawthon and published in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
The article is a study carried out to ‘investigate teacher speech and educational philosophies in inclusive classrooms with deaf and hearing students.’ Stephanie W. Cawthon’s study focuses on the investigation on the model ‘inclusive’ application in education. The model mainly consists in the integration of students with any special need into the general and traditional education and classrooms. The investigation covers three main areas:
1. ‘teacher speech to deaf and hearing students’: different reception of certain oral input between deaf and hearing students;
2. ‘inclusive philosophies and teaching strategies’: a philosophy which deals with individual differences and an inclusive education. Some of the inclusive strategies comprise small class size, deaf culture and the inclusion of an interpreter in the classroom.
3. ‘the role of an interpreter in classroom communication’ as the translator of the teacher’s speech.

Link: http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/6/3/212

LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE. Mobility and daily living skills in an English language classroom.

It is an article written by Boguslaw Marek where he proposes interesting activities for blind and visually impaired students. His purpose is to teach English by ‘bringing to life pictures, maps and diagrams’ and by using ‘mobility and daily living skills’ in order to give the visually impaired students confidence and independence.

Link: http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/case/sen.html#Special