A. Learning Media Assessment – Sensory Learning Kit – Flashcards

The SLK is available, on Quota Funds, from the American Printing House for the Blind, and consists of two guides and a large box of objects useful when conducting the assessment.

The SLK is a learning media assessment for students performing at the sensorimotor level of cognitive development. It allows the assessment team to identify objects and other media that can be used by the student in learning and literacy activities.

French psychologist Jean Piaget identified 4 levels of cognitive development in children. The first is the sensorimotor level, which begins at birth and extends to 2 years of age. Infants are trying to make sense of the world.

In the sensorimotor stage, an infant's knowledge is limited to her sensory perceptions and motor activities. Behaviors are motor responses caused by sensory stimuli. Children use inborn abilities, such as looking, sucking, grasping, and listening to learn more about the environment.

The SLK can be administered at any chronological age with students whose intellectual is within the birth to two years range.

Yes. IDEA, the federal education law, requires that V.I. students be assessed to determine if they will be braille readers. Though you may suspect that your MIVI student may not be a reader, it is still necessary to identify his/her appropriate learning/literacy media.

Even students with severe multiple disabilities can learn to associate meaning with objects they manipulate in daily pleasurable learning activities, such as snack preparation. A cup can be the symbol for a pleasurable activity, and the child's associating the object to the activity is literacy.