From 9-23 September, 14 days on, ten BA and MA students of the Faculty of Special Education Department of Tiflopedagogy lived and worked together with children with visual
impairment.
Sharing one and the same lifestyle with them, the students tried to overcome obstacle which exist for blind children with closed eyes and sticks.
The students went to Poland, to city Poznan within the framework of educational project “Spatial Orientation” the first stage of which was implemented in Armenia.
The above mentioned project aimed to improve professional skills of future tiflopedagogues and to strengthen theoretical knowledge with practical use.
This trip was really unprecedented for the second year MA student of the Department of Tiflopedagogy Marine Mkrtchyan both from cognitive and practical perspectives. Just like Marine, all the other participants of the project were impressed with the conditions that are created for children with special needs at schools.
“There were special playgrounds, olfactory and mobility gardens designated for spatial orientation.”
Furthermore, the visit paid to one of the three museums for the blind greatly helped Ani Abrahamyan to improve her professional experience.
Walking around the dark halls of the museum, moving like people with visual impairment do, the latter started to better perceive the theoretic knowledge she had been taught.
Besides, in the whole duration of the project the students received guidance from the lecturer of the Faculty of Special Education, Chair of Special Pedagogy and Psychology, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor Marine Maroutyan, from the lecturer of the same Chair Susanna Davtyan, and the lecturer of the Chair of Logopaedics and Rehabilitation Therapy Anna Charakhchyan.
