Visuals


 * Developing Presentation of Instruction by Creating Visuals & Content**

Students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities need real life models or images to help them make the connections to actual tasks. Much research has been conducted that students learn best in the natural environment but often times it is difficult, time consuming or costly to take the students into the community to practice skills. Therefore whenever possible, real like photographs using their peers or other students or videos of actual situations should be used to demonstrate and model certain tasks.

Visual design and how it might impede learning.
Here is an example of a PowerPoint show with a slide where students need to choose many books. The middle school students who took the photos and developed the slide noted that these images gave a distorted view of the concepts. They realized that they had to take another photo of the "few books" from a more distant angle so that the proportion would be the same. Given the images in the first slide, the size of the image versus the number of books in the image would be confusing.

PowerPoint
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