eLearnAfrica
Observing Visually Impaired Children Learning Through Play
The LEGO Foundation
  • Start Date: 27 May, 2024
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Explore how blind children engage in play experiences to adapt your pedagogy and redesign activities to enhance their learning.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Demonstrate learning through play for children with visual impairment


Playful experiences support all children in practising and developing a breadth of skills that are essential for them to thrive and successfully navigate a complex and ever-changing world.


This short course will introduce you to a tool designed to provide a shared understanding and methodology of playful experiences for children with visual impairment. This knowledge will help you observe, reflect upon, and improve children’s playful experiences.


Learn how to improve blind children’s playful learning


The Learning through Play Experience Tool is designed to provide facilitators and designers with a comprehensive framework for understanding and enhancing children’s play experiences. 


Throughout this course, you’ll learn how to use this tool to improve a child’s play experiences, particularly for children with visual impairments.  This tool ensures the children develop all five essential skills, physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and creative. 


You’ll also delve further into more nuanced concepts, including the characteristics of play and behavioural coding.


Gain insights from experts  in play-based learning 


By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped to advocate for and design equal access and quality learning experiences for all children.


Take your curiosity further and bring joy to all children by joining another course from the LEGO Foundation to gain more tools to support children with visual impairments in teaching environments, including [Learning Through Play with LEGO® Braille Bricks] (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-braille-through-play-with-lego-braille-bricks).


This course is primarily designed for Teachers for the Visually Impaired (TVIs) as well as practitioners, assistants, and other specialised professionals working with children with visual challenges.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

The LEGO Foundation

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.
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