IN Training: Responsive Environments Overview Transcript

BARB PURVIS, Education Consultant:

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Title: Responsive Environments

• Encourage discovery and practice
• Offer immediate feedback
• Provide sense of familiarity and control
Examples
• Lilli Nielsen's "Little Room"
• Resonance board
• Stay put play spaces
• Create your own!

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So responsive environments, are environments that respond and it doesn't take, since a lot of these kids have challenges with their motor issues there are things that will respond, move, make noise, something at the slightest little touch. You don't have to have great fine motor skills to manipulate these environments, and they offer immediate feedback, it comes right there and again that familiarity and control. You saw how she began to learn, you know when she couldn't find the bowl anymore she's like oh well there's still something else back here I can play with.