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Session 8 Learning to Learn and Think SECTION 3: 1 Meeting Adults Needs These are the areas of the brain concerned with the processes of remembering and paying attention (so important to thinking and learning) SECTION 3: 2 Meeting Adults

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Session 8

Learning to Learn and Think

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These are the areas of the brain concerned with the processes of remembering and paying attention (so important to thinking and learning)

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Cookery

Freda understands a few single words in
context. She loves pictures and photos, music,

dressing up and watching her mum cook.

Take 10 minutes to discuss how you could

introduce a regular cookery session and help Freda to remember to go to the session and start to learn a cookery skill.

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Multisensory approach

If we want people to remember better then we need to use a multi-sensory approach.

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Repetition

It is very likely that your discussion will have involved the importance of a clear routine and very frequent repetition probably backed up by the systematic use

f cues.

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Active learning

The examples that help understanding need to employ ‘active learning’. That does not necessarily mean adults have to be physically active, but they have to have active

minds. They need to be

engaged with the learning so they can do something with it. In practice, because most adults with SLD find abstract learning so difficult, they will need concrete examples. They will need to be doing.

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Motivation

‘I should start from where the person is and not where I think they should be - but I can’t leave them there.’ Motivation is the key. Ideal activities are regular and interesting to the person that you are supporting.

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Metacognition

Where possible teach

adults to talk about thinking

Use words such as think,

ask question, remember, imagine, pretend, guess.

Cartoons with thought

bubble pictures can be very helpful

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Memory Games

Play Kim’s Game What’s missing?

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Pub Games

Pub games can be enjoyable and stimulating

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Problem Solving

Avoid being too helpful. Consider setting up situations where someone has to problem

solve. For example you

might decide not to put

ut all the equipment and

see if someone can get the missing item.

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Teaching anticipation

Lots of ‘burst-pause’

activities

Repeat the activity

several times and then stop and watch the reaction

Keep repeating until you

feel the adult knows what is going to happen next

Remember this can take

hundreds of repeats

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A Useful Tool

Routes for Learning is excellent for

assessing and developing early thinking skills.

Get it free from 0870 2423207

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Using the community

Investigate sources of learning in the

community.

See what is available at the local college.