Brain Teasers - Helping Children Rediscover The Joy Of Learning
TIS
recently provided Dr. Madhuri Kulkarni of Sion Hospital with 800 copies of a specially created book titled, "Brain Teasers".
As part of the team that worked on this book, it was a very satisfying moment
indeed.
We created
this book ("Brain Teasers"), with inputs from Sion Hospital, to meet the special educational needs of children with learning disabilities.
It provides practice in reading, writing and mathematics, and is intended to
help children with learning disabilities rediscover the joy of learning. It
also helps parents understand learning disabilities and find ways to address
them.
The book is
aimed at students in the age group of 11 years to 13 years and covers all the
learning disabilities; Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia.
The book is
a collection of interesting activities intended to engage children with
learning disabilities. The activities have been designed keeping in mind the
special educational needs of such children. They provide practice in reading,
writing and mathematics. The book is divided into two parts: Information on
learning disability for parents and activities for children.
Our main
objective while designing the book was to keep the activities simple and
colourful so as to help children rediscover the joy of learning.
- We have purposefully incorporate examples from day-to-day activities to aid better recall.
- We have used simplified illustrations, to help children identify the images.
- We have used bright colours to provide a fresh look to the entire book.
- The activities have been graded with three levels of difficulty.
- The page numbers have been colour coded to depict the levels of difficulty.
Please
click here
and here
for a look inside this book.
(Manisha Mohan is Head - Innovation & Design with Tata Interactive Systems)
Great idea. Is the book available for sale?
Posted by: Harold Jarche | Mar 13, 2006 at 05:00 PM
Its really a nice book about Learning Disability. Selection of colors or the simplicity of exercises.
It should be accessible to all; when is coming to market?
Posted by: Paavani | Apr 06, 2006 at 12:53 AM