The learning is always faster with visual inputs …. even in 6 th grade when we are using cookie dough and chocolate chips to make a visual model of the atom nucleus – who would have thought? Of course, he was most successful with video, but after years of strictly video, we have been able to branch out into other visual inputs. Now, when I teach my son, I always have visuals. The research exists and more will be coming. Research supports video modeling as an evidence-based teaching method and it has been recognized by the CEC(Council for Exceptional Children) as a valid means of teaching. Video modeling can be used in sooooo many ways – self modeling, peer modeling, etc… and it can be used to teach sooooo many skills – from simple receptive language, imitation skills to complex social skills. Video was our main teacher and our therapy hours were used for generalizing the skills he learned on video. Well, needless to say, video became my life and my son just kept learning and learning. After my first attempt at VM, as a result my son was speaking within 2 ½ weeks. Pure desperation led me to video modeling.
Couple this information with 2 years of therapy for my son with no progress, and a light bulb went off in my head. so I guess it didn’t dawn on me that this could be so impactful on educating. In that book and in her presentation she referred to her thought process as going back in her mind, retrieving a video tape from her mind’s library and then playing the proper video to think/see…. “I was fortunate enough to see Temple Grandin speak years ago…. before she became a star…. I went to the presentation on a whim – I guess to get out of the house (pathetic right?) Being the mother of an autistic child leads you to do things that a “normal” person wouldn’t be caught dead doing! At the time, I believe that she only had one book published Thinking in Pictures. Here are her thoughts on Video Modeling and how Watch Me Learn came to be.
#Watchme video series
From there came the Watch Me Learn Video Series which has received near unanimous praise. Many of you know her as the amazing mother who used video modeling to help her son learn to speak.
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