I need activities that can help teach money skills to blind, multiply handicapped students.?

Question

They are older, from 17-22, and are learning to count coins to $1.00. All of the activities that are commercially available use worksheets (which they cannot see) or use Braille (which they cannot read.)

Other than just giving them coins to count over and over (SO BORING) -- does anyone have some suggestions for neat activities that we could use to break up the monotony? We have used coins to count by 5s, 10s, and it will take them still a couple of months to "get it" and I don't want them to be so bored. Ideas?

Answer 1

try to use the concept of "incidental teaching" - tt works best with childrne with special needs. basically, incidental teaching means they learn in the natural occuring environment. for instance, if u r teaching money skills, u can pretend to start a shop/ bring them to the school canteen and with a budget (e.g. $0.50), get them to experience making a purchase. generally, incidental teaching helps these students to transfer their learning to the real-life environment which help them to function and integrate better.