Name of teaching material
Tangible and audio books self-made product
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| Target |
Children with both visual impairment and intellectual disability (children in the lower grades of the Elementary Department: 6 to 8 year olds) Children who do not like to touch things Children with difficulty in verbal communication |
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| Disability category | visual impairment mentally challenged multiple disabilities |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living other |
| Specific purposes | To encourage children to turn pages while enjoying sounds and textures |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | Melody cards are placed between the pages so that a sound is produced when a page is opened. The materials affixed to the pages have textures favored by children, and are easy to verbally describe and differentiate. They are affixed to the pages such that the children feel the same texture on the thumb and other fingers when they turn a page. In testing, even children who were not interested in the story became interested in the action of turning pages. It is best to use materials (in this study: single-face corrugated cardboard, vinyl fabric, fluffy cloth, and large-weave netting) and melodies that children like. To make it easy to turn pages, it is best to make a core with thick paper such as Shikishi (a square piece of fancy cardboard) or Itamegami (stiff board made of layers of washi paper pasted together), and wrap the material around it. |
| Expected effects and results | Children who did not like to touch things picked up the book, and enjoyed touching the entire surface of each page and turning pages. |
| How to use | First, tell the children they will hear music and feel different textures, while helping them turn pages. Once they can turn pages by themselves, help them enjoy turning pages, while saying, at the appropriate times, “turn the page”, “rough surface”, “smooth surface”. It is best to adapt the methodology to individual children, such as playing music only when they turn a page with a specific material affixed to it, and changing the combination and order of materials and music. |
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- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
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- Created 2017-11-09 13:48:39
- Updated 2020-06-08 14:52:45