Synopsis of resource:
| The discovery of the learning process emerged in the Driving to Learn project which focused on children and adults with profound cognitive disabilities practicing in a joystick-operated powered wheelchair. Further modifications and expansions were made together with Durkin (ALP, version 2.0), with Speech Language Pathologists in the US (ALP for AAC) and on my own (universal ALP).
In the universal ALP the behavioural characteristics for each stage and phase are generic and therefore the instrument and the facilitating strategies can be applied with any person (infant, child or adult) with any diagnosis and in any kind of tool-use situation. A guide for application of the ALP-tool can be found and downloaded for free from the homepage. |
Key learning outcomes
- The ALP-instrument is used to determine stage of exploration and phase of learning
- The ALP-facilitating strategies provides guidance for the facilitating approach at each stage and phase
- By choosing facilitating strategies matching assessed stage and phase the learner can be provided with a just right challenge supporting further learning
Authors
Lisbeth Nilsson is a PhD and specialist in occupational therapy and associated researcher at the Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. She became an occupational therapist in 1974, earned a Master’s degree in 1996 and a Doctoral degree in 2007. She developed the intervention Driving to Learn and discovered the process growing consciousness of tool-use (1993-2007). Together with her collaborator Josephine Durkin, she developed the Assessment of Learning Powered mobility use (ALP) (2009-2013). She is currently working on publishing research on the universal Assessment of Learning Process (ALP) and developing more resources for the application of the ALP-tool.
