02/21/2015
An interview with Bernadette Van Den Tillaart and Gunnar Vege, who both work with children with congenital deafblindness. Their experiences and research have led them to emphasis the need for educators to enter into the tactile world of the child with deafblindness, to mirror and affirm a child's experiences and emotions, from which a child becomes increasingly self-aware and better able to communicate and interact with the environment.
Click the Chapters button above to view individual segments:
- Introduction
- From Meaningful to Significant
- Applying Meaningful Experiences
- To Be the Affirming Mirror
- The Co-Present Partner
- Becoming a Tactile Mind
- Tactile Mirror
- Tension & Emotion in Interaction
- Bodily Emotional Traces
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