Moira Laura Eva Dechef
Jewish General Hospital, Canada
Title: Peeling the onion: interventions to stimulate, support, and sustain reading progress in a child psychiatry unit
Biography
Biography: Moira Laura Eva Dechef
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this workshop is to focus on how teachers can peel the educational onion to convey essential tools to students who exhibit complex scholastic experiences. Our educational canvas is painted with student diversity and varied learning styles. In addition, mental health vulnerabilities and their impact on the learning process only add intricacy to the teaching domain. As a special need’s educator working with students presenting enmeshed educational/emotional portraits and have observed general instructive strategies often fall short in “success for all” for student reading proficiency.
Method: The instructional tools utilized within a psychiatric unit’s therapeutic classroom, consists of merging research findings and interventions for students with reading disabilities and psychiatric vulnerabilities. Strategies designed to engage, motivate, and challenge students who demonstrate anxiety, depression, helplessness, or negative behavioral manifestations when faced with the realities of their reading/learning difficulties, will be shared.
Conclusion: Although results consist of observations in the field, they demonstrated that presented interventions are helpful and make a difference in reading proficiency for students with emneshed educational and emotional profiles.