Play and Disabilities
Reflection: Inclusion as a Universal Design for Play🌈🌈 Our final session on play and disabilities completely reframed my point of view on inclusion. The Mirror game was a joyful activity for me, illustrating how play builds an affective classroom climate where students with diverse emotional and social needs can find a sense of success. I was once again reminded of the core principles of UDL, stating the strong line that the curriculum is disabled when it fails to meet a learner's needs, rather than the learner themselves being the problem. Participating in the chocolate activity demonstrated the power of differentiated instruction. It showed me that by providing multiple means of representation, engagement and expression can spark the unique strengths in any child and honouring them despite barriers. Recalling my ECCD visit, I now realize that removing physical barriers like iron nails is a prerequisite for inclusion. Furthermore, the slide featuring diverse animal...