@lila@octodon.social @jessmahler (also don't mistake me for a real professional educator. I volunteered at a science museum for a few years, over a decade ago, but I've been a computer programmer since. I felt more confident answering the original question since I can talk about my own experiences with autism - but what I know of blindness comes only from people I led through activities at the St. Louis Science Center.)
@jessmahler @lila@octodon.social (What I learned from that can be summarized, though: anybody can learn anything if they can be led to connect it to a familiar concept. Nobody can make that connection for them, but children will tell you constantly where their knowledge ends and give hints about how they form connections and interact intellectually with the world. What bridges the gap from there to what we wish to teach, and how can I make the points of connection most obvious?)
