運転して学ぶ : 強力な学習体験
Nilsson, Lisbeth LU
(2024)
Kids Loco project International Meeting
- Abstract
- Lisbeth Nilsson Summary presentation Kids Loco I am most thankful to meeting with sensai Junichi Takashio in England 2012 and getting the opportunity to visit Biwako Gakuen in 2014, and returning to Japan in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to these meetings Driving to Learn and the Assessment of Learning Powered mobility use (ALP) became known in Japan. This presentation will show what develops if an infant or a child gets access to the experience of locomotion before the time when they have the physical abilities to move around by rolling, crawling, creeping or walking. Already in 1997 I video-recorded 17 typically developing infants when they tested a joystick-operated powered wheelchair. Some of the infants made one test per month, at up to six... (More)
- Lisbeth Nilsson Summary presentation Kids Loco I am most thankful to meeting with sensai Junichi Takashio in England 2012 and getting the opportunity to visit Biwako Gakuen in 2014, and returning to Japan in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to these meetings Driving to Learn and the Assessment of Learning Powered mobility use (ALP) became known in Japan. This presentation will show what develops if an infant or a child gets access to the experience of locomotion before the time when they have the physical abilities to move around by rolling, crawling, creeping or walking. Already in 1997 I video-recorded 17 typically developing infants when they tested a joystick-operated powered wheelchair. Some of the infants made one test per month, at up to six occasions, and their first test in a powered wheelchair was made at the age of 3 or 4 months – before the age when they developed self-produced locomotion. At each occasion they got a short experience (15-30-minute) of active self-produced powered mobility. This experience developed their understanding of cause effect – act on joystick makes chair move – already at the age of three months. Furthermore, their attention and wakefulness increased and their use of hands developed – meaning they used their hands to explore surfaces and things in a more explorative way. The results of the typically developing infants are of great importance for infants and children with disabilities, showing the importance of providing early access to self-produced locomotor experiences in a powered device. Opportunities to repeated experiences make the child recognise that it is their acts on a joystick or switch that cause changes of their position in space and alter their relationships to the physical and social environment. This exciting experience increases attention, perception and understanding and encourages the child to do further explorations of the situation. Experiencing and perceiving how own actions can cause a variety of outcomes, develops a growing consciousness of self and how things work in the world which expands understandings of how own acts and interaction can change and influence what goes on in a situation. Infants and children with disabilities follows the same developmental paths as typically developing children, even if they build their own patterns of achievements and make them in their own pace. When a child with disabilities gets access to a device where they can explore and experience self-produced locomotion, they also get opportunities to develop their abilities to act and interact in a situation. This in turn changes others reactions and perceptions of the child, making them recognise the child as a being with unexpected abilities. ”To be is to be perceived”, therefore if a child with disabilities is able to drive a powered wheelchair it changes how others perceive the child as a being with possibilities to be active and interact with the world. My hope is that increased awareness of how early experiences of self-produced locomotion impacts on a child’s general development, will support provision of powered mobility devices to infants and children with disabilities in Japan. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Lisbeth
LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Driving to Learn : a powerful learning experience
- publishing date
- 2024-08-31
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- powered wheelchairs, profound cognitive disabilities, infants, Children & Adolescents, Adult
- conference name
- Kids Loco project International Meeting
- conference location
- Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
- conference dates
- 2024-08-31 - 2024-09-01
- language
- Japanese
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Conference keynote presentation
- id
- 99a3fb24-0f37-42f9-8146-661c257d4bda
- alternative location
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383976285_Driving_to_Learn_-_a_powerful_learning_experience
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- 2024-10-03 22:13:06
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 14:18:19
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title = {{運転して学ぶ : 強力な学習体験}},
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year = {{2024}},
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