How will you teach a child who is blind, mute and deaf that the color of an apple is red?

Question

You can base your answer with the movie The miracle worker

Answer 1

I don't think you need to be worrying about teaching a blind,deaf,mute child about colors. Only teach children things that are applicable to them. If it means nothing to him, why teach it. You need to be focusing on things that he can use, such as self-help skills, ex. - brushing teeth, dressing, etc.

Answer 2

what the other one said bout braille but describe the color

Answer 3

You could use braille to help feel over the sentence the apple is red. and you can let them feel over a real apple.

Answer 4

You may want to spend time teaching this child something he or she really needs to know. I know that some people believe that we should teach people things other than what they need to know, otherwise we wouldn't read literature or poetry. However, if this is your intention, introduce this child to things that would really interest him or her.

The way to open up the world to this child is to teach him or her to communicate and to assist them in learning about the smells and textures of their world. That is where the joy will come for this child.

Every human I have ever known, no matter what the disability or its severity, strive to communicate. That is where a lot of misbehavior comes from. That is why Helen Keller's teacher started by teaching her to communicate. And that was why her behavior was so difficult to begin with.

Answer 5

Assuming that the child has been blind from birth, there is no way to teach a concept, such as color, that is completely dependent upon sight.  

And from a practical learning perspective, why would you even try to teach someone who is blind, mute, and deaf that the color of an apple is red?  First of all, apples are not all red;  there are many that are yellow, green, or variations and combinations of red, yellow, and green.  The concept of "apple" is not at all defined by its color.  Secondly, a person who is blind, mute, and deaf has a very challenging situation, and  there is no point in teaching completely abstract concepts such as the "color of an apple."  It would be easier to teach the "sound of an electric bass guitar" - at least there is a tactile vibration associated with that, even though the deaf person will never have the same experience of what an electric bass guitar means as a hearing person will.  But education of a child who is blind, deaf, and without speech will concentrate on far more essential concerns, such as how to communicate needs and wants, how to take care of practical life matters such as eating, dressing, walking safely about, etc.  The idea of teaching the "color" of an apple isn't relevant.  It would be relevant to sign "apple" tactilely (so the child feels it) while having the child taste the apple, so the concept of "apple" and the taste and texture of the apple are linked.  Later, you might link the concept of apple with more complex descriptions, such as "sweet." "juicy," etc., or with other concepts such as "fruit" or "grows on a tree."  But those concepts are far more advanced than learning to associate an apple with the way it smells, feels, and tastes.

In "The Miracle Worker," the breakthrough moment is when Annie and Helen are refilling a water pitcher at a pump, and Helen connects the meaning of "water" as Annie is signing into her hand, and the actual experience of water rushing over her hands.  "Water" is a far simpler concept than "the color of an apple is red."  If Annie Sullivan had been attempting to teach that "water is a colorless, odorless liquid composed of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom," she would not have succeeded because that would have made no sense to Helen.  But allowing Helen to "experience" water and then repeatedly signing "water" into her hand was what allowed her to grasp the concept.

By the way, Helen Keller was not blind and deaf from birth;  she lost her vision and hearing at about 1 1/2 years old, so she did have some experience of seeing and hearing, as well as of language.  In the movie, Helen said, "Wah-wah" as she understands the link between the feeling of the water on her hands and the signing of the word that Annie gives her.  Historical record suggests that Helen did have a few spoken words, including "wah-wah" for "water," before her illness left her without sight, hearing, or speech.  The fact that Helen did have even a short time of sight and hearing would have made it far more possible to teach the concepts of "the color of an apple is read" than it would be to a person who had never been able to hear and see.  And as far as I know, Helen Keller was not known to understand the concept of colors.

A teacher of children who are blind, deaf, and without verbal speech will focus on the skills that are required for that child to function in the real world, and "the color of an apple is red" is not one of those skills.

Answer 6

Read the Auto biography of Helenkeller .

Now there are special schools to teach such handicapped students .

Answer 7

how do we teach them things anyways. Like do they stay uneducated in all their life time? Seriously, life sux without knowing anything about the world around you.  I feel really bad for them.  

You, my fellow, want to tell that child the color of an apple, which is kindda impossible. If I was you, I would go and make a presentation for people who are not mute,deaf and blind, and let them know that their body parts are very worthy and tell them that people who are not able to hear, talk and see are suffering of that. That's much better than trying to do something impossible :D

Answer 8

You can't !!!!!  because the child do not know the colors because he is blind. You can't tell him because he is deaf.

All he can learn is its texture and its flavor that's how he will associate certain flavors to textures.