Name of teaching material
A lion’s mane (coordination of eyes and hands) self-made product
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| Target |
○ Children who do not have much experience with, for example, looking, touching, and picking up with the fingers (elementary division) ○ Especially those who have poor muscle strength and thus have very weak hand and fingertip strength (for example, children with Down syndrome). |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living |
| Specific purposes |
○ To improve hand and finger motor skills ○ To improve children’s eye–hand coordination |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | To increase the children’s incentive as much as possible, the teaching material was made to look cute, with bright and pretty colors. It was also made with light materials so that the children could handle it easily with both hands. |
| Expected effects and results | The teaching material can be used most effectively as a step before beginning to practice buttoning and unbuttoning clothing. |
| How to use |
○ Place clothespins as a mane around a cat mask to create a lion mask. ○ Always make sure to encourage the children to use both hands. ○ In the case of children who have difficulty with eye–hand coordination, the teacher can create the teaching material with the children and adjust the orientation of the material (i.e. the lion and clothespins). The teacher can help them to use the cat’s whiskers as markers when putting the clothespins on and can offer other forms of help. ○ By taking into account the child’s manipulation skills and ability to concentrate, select materials of such a size that the child can finish the project and enjoy a sense of achievement: “I did it!” |
| Related teaching materials and information | As a step before beginning to practice buttoning and unbuttoning clothing, children can practice with Plus 10 (NIC Company) to learn to take a good look at the hole first and then to put an object through the hole. With the lion’s mane the children learn to pick the clothespins up with the fingers and practice eye–hand coordination. Prepare a smock worn during school lunches by replacing the buttons on the smock with larger ones, enlarging the buttonholes, lengthening the thread shank, and making other changes. Children can then use this smock to practice buttoning and unbuttoning. Begin by placing the smock flat on a desk. Once the children have become sufficiently good at buttoning and unbuttoning the smock in this position, they can begin practicing while wearing the smock. |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Hidehiro Atsuya:Special Needs Education School for the Mentally Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Children with Down syndrome, eye–hand coordination, hand and finger motor skills
- Created 2016-11-02 13:35:03
- Updated 2020-06-08 12:17:54