Mediated Learning in the Family Environment

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Mediated Learning in the Family Environment

• Dr Sari Alony

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The Goals of Parental Guidance

• Enhancing the Childs development
• through
• Parent - Child interaction

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Children treated at ICELP

• Down and other Syndromes
• Autistic spectrum
• Organic deficiencies and Developmental
  impediments
• Learning deficiencies
• Underachievers

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Parental guidance

• Guidance is focused on
• Broadening parents understanding of the childs
  developmental process
• Suggesting remedial mediation
• Coping with problems in daily life

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A crucial dilemma in Parental Guidance

• Convincing parents in their childs modifiability

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Guidance focused on

• 2. Assimilating the MLE criteria
• - Intentionality Reciprocity
• - Transcendence
• - Mediation of meaning
• - Mediation of feeling of competence
• - Mediation of control of behavior
• - Mediation of sharing behavior

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Guidance focused on

• 3.Broadening parents understanding of the
  childs developmental process
• 4. Suggesting remedial mediation
• 5. Coping with problems in daily life

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Mediation is designed to

• Be flexible
• Be adaptive to the childs responses
• Produce structural changes

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Alice in WonderlandLewis Carroll

• "- yes, that's about the right distance - but
  then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got
  to?" (Alice had not the slightest idea what
  Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she
  thought they were nice grand words to say.)"
• (Ch. 1)

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What is a concept?

• A mental representation or idea that includes a
  description of important properties of a class or
  term.
• Concepts refer to categories.
• They are a mental description of real world
  entities or of abstract terms.

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The importance of concepts

• Essential for communication.
• Understanding and explaining.
• Classification.
• Prediction.
• Reasoning.
• Conceptual combination (as building blocks of
  higher order concepts).

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Concept acquisition

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Time
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Seminar for Parents
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The training process covers
Training professionals

• Learning the theory of personal
• modifiability
• Understanding of the importance of an
• Active Modifying approach (vs. a Passive
  Accepting one)
• Learning and applying the principles and
  strategies of MLE in their particular field

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Application of the Mediation principles in

• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Intensive program of preparation for Integration

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Alternative training methods

• A) Individual instruction
• B) Group meetings
• C) Conferences, workshops and
• demonstrations

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Childrens Graduation in Holland
(2002)
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Assessments in Japan
(2004)
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Training course in France
(2005)
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Workshop in Tokyo(2006)
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www.icelp.org

• Email icelp_at_actcom.co.il