Add@Me Learning Methods Database (EN)

The sighted participants are blindfolded. The preparation of the setting is very important. You can use a long rope and tie it to chairs or various objects across a room where they can walk by holding the rope in their hand (you can also build the setting along a handrail for example).  If you have the possibility to organize it outside, you can tie it around trees or according to your setting. The vi facilitator instructs the first person to follow the way and never leaving the rope from his/her hand.

It is an individual activity and the vi facilitator and/or an assistant can walk next to the participant to make him/her more at ease. Each participant does the way individually. The itinerary should not last more than 5 to 10 minutes. The participant should put his/her blindfold before entering the room/area where the activity is taking place.

The vi facilitator explains to the group that they are going to create an ‘orchestra’ without instruments. The orchestra will only use sounds that can be made by the human body. Participants can use hands, feet, voice etc, but no words; for example, they could whistle, hum, sigh or stomp their feet. Each player should select a sound. Choose a well-known tune and ask everyone to play along, using the ‘instrument’ that they have chosen. Alternatively, the vi facilitator doesn’t give a tune and let the group surprise itself by creating a unique sound.

The following game can be used to bring up the energy of a group or at a beginning of a day with educational activities. You can play it with as many children or youngsters as you want. 

The idea of the game is that the participants are running free all over the room. The visually impaired facilitator stops this running in an undefined rhythm by calling very loud a number like  “5” for example and followed by “atomic particles are coming together”. When the participants are hearing this, they need to stop running and try to find four (or depends on the number of particles) other participants and build a group. It is very important that the visually impaired facilitator changes the rhythm and the number of particles very often so s/he keeps the participants' attention.  There can be background music helping increase the mood of the participants.

People with visual impairment can play audio darts; the rules are the same as for darts game using a non audio board. Each player will need to shoot 3 arrows into the dartboard trying to score as high as possible. The points are subtracted from a total number of 300 (depending on what type of dart game the participants choose). The player who first reaches "0" is the winner of the game.

There are several ways of playing darts all of them using the same board. The assistance of a partially sighted or sighted neutral person is needed in order to point the participants with visual impairment into the direction of the board and also assist with dividing and returning the arrows after each shoot.

The vi facilitator splits the group into pairs and the members of each pair sit back to back. One person gets a picture of a shape or simple image, and the other gets a piece of paper and pen. The person holding the picture gives verbal instructions to their partner on how to draw the shape or image they’ve been given (without simply telling them what the shape or the image is). After a certain amount of time, each set of partners will compare their images and see which team drew the most accurate replica.