Present-Day Concepts and Practices of Rehabilitation Teaching

Abstract

□ It has been the purpose of this paper to discuss some of the major concepts which have determined and shaped our present-day practices in rehabilitation teaching. Let us remember that we are teaching individuals who differ in abilities and needs, but who have resources within themselves which can be utilized in the rehabilitative process. The subject matter we teach is centered around those daily living activities which are particularly applicable to the needs of individual clients in their environmental settings. The methods and techniques we have suggested here are tools designed to help the teacher in teaching individuals more effectively. When our clients learn to live again without sight through achieving a degree of self-dependence which is comfortable and satisfying to them, both personally and socially, then we, as rehabilitation teachers, will have met our objective.