Development of Future-Proof Learning Materials for Learners with Difficulty in Remembering and Concentrating, and Difficulty in Seeing

The development and validation of future-proof learning materials for learners with special needs along with difficulty in remembering and concentrating, and seeing in DepEd Camarines Sur and DepEd Naga City focused on descriptive qualitative research design. Pre and post-test assessments were done through testing and direct observations. Likewise, informal interviews were done with the group of special education teachers and parents in order to gauge how they conducted and facilitated the entire process of assessing the students in different groups. Furthermore, in order to get the content reliability of the materials, format, and language level acceptability, a series of validation and try out was done by school administrators and area supervisors in DepEd Camarines Sur. For difficulty in remembering and concentrating, the learning activity sheet using clay, clay molding and playing with the clay dough was developed; for difficulty in seeing, the learning activity developed learners’ multi-sensory approach leans toward knowing the five senses and their corresponding body parts and learning to understand the different senses with the use supplementary visual and audio material with clear verbal explanations. Each instructional material developed contains steps that the learners followed. Set of scoring rubrics was used based on a specific set of criteria.