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With the current emphasis on innovation and research in higher education, this paper proposes design-based research as base for a teaching approach to enhance the learning environment of university college students. The paper depicts how students, professors, professional educationalists, and people with learning disabilities worked together to develop five new visual and digital methods for interviewing in special education. Thereby not only enhancing the students’ competences, knowledge and proficiency in innovation and research, but also proposing a new teaching paradigm for university colleges and providing new tools for communication in special education.
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The program provides qualifications for working with development and care assignments among children, young people and adults with reduced psychological or physical capacities.
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In this research, people with learning disabilities are limited to people in need of care by professional educationalists, i.e. people with downs syndrome, mental retardation, autism etc.
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Talking mats involves the use of a mat and picture communication symbols. People communicate answers by placing a picture beneath a happy, neutral or angry smiley.
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Two interviewers instead of four also limited the amount of stress for the interviewee.
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Names are kept anonymous. Statements are translated from Danish to English.
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Jönsson, L. (2017). Learning by Designing Interview Methods in Special Education. In: Brooks, A., Brooks, E. (eds) Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. ArtsIT DLI 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55834-9_32
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