Pete Fraschetti
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4/8/2021
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Pete Fraschetti
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I had a blind student in my hand building ceramics class with a seeing eye dog. She was having difficulty with coiling and slab building so I put her on the potters wheel next to mine. While verbally describing how I was centering the clay on the wheel to the whole class and her I asked her to sit on the opposite side of the wheel I was working on and had her place both her hands on each of mine while I demonstrated to the class. Note that I explained and demonstrated how to center without looking at the clay as it spun. I told the class that it is easer to center without looking because when you look most people over link what they are doing and that the best way was to feel the clay centering as it turns. After my demonstration the class tried to center the class without much success except for the blind student. The student asked her how she was able to center the class so fast. Her reply was "Mr. Fraschetti said not to look at the clay and feel the clay moving and that not looking was easy for her. Note that she graduated from high school as the Valedictorian and always cleaned up the potters wheel with the dogs help taking to the sink and back as needed |