{"id":387,"date":"2011-04-01T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-04-02T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T08:23:02","slug":"peer-learning-visual-impairment-symbols-environment-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/04\/01\/peer-learning-visual-impairment-symbols-environment-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer learning, Visual impairment, Symbols, Environment, Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong>New Sharing Practice materials have been added to the Supporting Learners website.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Touching Lives initiative demonstrates how visually impaired young people and their sighted peers work together creatively to gain a greater appreciation of artefacts at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/t\/touchinglives\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=sharingpractice&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-645094-64\">http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/t\/touchinglives\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=sharingpractice&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-645094-64<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"> &lt;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/t\/touchinglives\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=sharingpractice&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-645094-64\">http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/t\/touchinglives\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=sharingpractice&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-645094-64<\/a><\/span><\/span>&gt;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><br \/>\nCommunication is key for all children and young people and their teachers. The Symbolising the Environment project in Fife demonstrates how the use of symbols has a positive impact on all children and young people, not only those with additional support needs.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/s\/symbolsproject\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=search&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-615801-64\">http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/s\/symbolsproject\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=search&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-615801-64<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"> &lt;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/s\/symbolsproject\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=search&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-615801-64\">http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/s\/symbolsproject\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=search&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-615801-64<\/a><\/span><\/span>&gt; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Sharing Practice materials have been added to the Supporting Learners website. The Touching Lives initiative demonstrates how visually impaired young people and their sighted peers work together creatively to gain a greater appreciation of artefacts at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University. http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/t\/touchinglives\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=sharingpractice&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-645094-64 &lt;http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/sharingpractice\/t\/touchinglives\/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=sharingpractice&amp;strReferringPageID=tcm:4-645094-64&gt; Communication is key for all children and young people and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/04\/01\/peer-learning-visual-impairment-symbols-environment-museums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peer learning, Visual impairment, Symbols, Environment, Museums<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages-and-literacy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}