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What are some good short ice breakers to an independent living skills lesson. 4 students all with varying levels of vision. (self.Blind)
submitted by morningafternooneven
AutisticPearl 2 points 2y ago
I have a suggestion, you should try playing and more specifically, try a simple game that also allows until we can get the kids together there was one I remember hearing about I'm a friend of mine used to do something similar to what you do, and they told me the way they did it was they had the children or adults or whatever who give me Louis, go grab an object so for example you would say something like who can find a school, and they was rushed to see if you could find the fastest. You could modify this obviously, but the way my friends explained it she said she used it because it's got to be students in game, and it got them touching and feeling things right off so they were able to stay very. But you're not able to do that, another good suggestions that I've learned to have the children come up with three things about themselves, I've seen this done to the different ways you could touch yourself example my friend gave me was that she had little question and she have the students raised their hands each time something was answered, so example who here has a cut on his people to raise their hands until on their social and through other options do I but this one is really good because you don't have to be able to see anything during interphase you just have to be able to list so what you say is it do any of you children need a break it keeps going until February has raised their hand tricycle. A good word for everybody. Because you can see how many people similar.
morningafternooneven [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you AutisticPearl, some great suggestions, much appreciated.
CloudyBeep 2 points 2y ago
I have a few ideas that will be more helpful than the other comments in this thread.

How well do the students know each other? Who exactly are you—what is your role and profession? How well do you know each of them?
morningafternooneven [OP] 3 points 2y ago
Hi CloudyBeep,
I am a habilitation specialist. Hate the term specialist but that’s the title.
I am leading 2 lessons on basic kitchen skills.
The first will be with 3 young people who have probably met each other once before and prior to COVID. I know each student quite well and have a good relationship with each. They are fun and hard working kids - ages 10 - 14.
2 of the young people are blind, 1 has useful functional vision.
The second lesson is with 4 students that I don’t know at all but they know each other well.
All with sight impairments and some with physical disabilities.
Any suggestions of fun and easy ice breakers would be hugely appreciated.
CloudyBeep 3 points 2y ago
As you may know, blind adults in a group will often go around the room and everyone will say their name so they each learn each other's voice and can get an idea of who's there. You could ask the students in the first group to say their name and then something else like their favorite food, something they're excited to do now or once they're vaccinated, what animal they would choose to be for a day, etc. I recommend making them using the same template with you modelling it, e.g. "My name is Nancy, my favourite food is spaghetti, and if I could be any animal for a day, I'd be a cheetah so I could travel quickly. Now Eric, tell us your favourite food and what animal you'd choose to be." You get the idea.

For the second group, because they know each other, that kind of activity might be a bit tedious. You could try a "two truths, one lie" game or ask them to recount something funny or embarrassing that happened to them recently.

All of these activities will pass extremely quickly in such a small group, so you can use them to spark some discussion before you start your lesson.
morningafternooneven [OP] 3 points 2y ago
CloudyBeep, some lovely suggestions.
I will let you know how it goes!
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chifrij0 0 points 2y ago
Umm you don't need it, they are like any other student
morningafternooneven [OP] 3 points 2y ago
Umm, a good lesson can have ice breakers! Especially if the students don’t know each other.
Only1lunatica 1 points 2y ago
I think they meant you can just use normal ice breakers
morningafternooneven [OP] 3 points 2y ago
I was hoping for some suggestions of ice breakers that work well with visually impaired or blind. Not all ice breakers work well when vision is impaired.
Only1lunatica 1 points 2y ago
then stick to verbal ones
traumatic_worth 1 points 2y ago
Lots of normal ones can work just fine.
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