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Teaching materials for interpersonal communication skills  improved marketed product
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Target • Students at the High School Division (15 - 17 years old)
• Students who can communicate verbally
Disability category mentally challenged
Teaching units / Applicable scenes life unit learning
Specific purposes • Students will be able to develop the interpersonal communication skills necessary for workplaces such as activity learning and field training.
Considerations for disability characteristics • Students will develop better interpersonal communication skills by seeing role-plays with their supporters and other students as well as doing role-plays themselves.
Expected effects and results • Good examples of role-plays enabled students to devise a method of improving their communication skills and to discuss a lot. They used their new skills in actual daily life.
How to use • Students do role-plays and exchange opinions as part of a group task about basic interpersonal manners at workplaces, using supportive visual aids.
• Introduce this teaching material to make students able to develop interpersonal behavior and sociality and deal with events that may cause them to become anxious or confused.
• Themes covered in JST: greet, report, ask questions, confirm, apologize, how to behave when you are late, how to behave when you pass by someone, interrupt someone’s conversation to tell them something important, and conversation during a break.
Related teaching materials and information • Job-related Skills Training (JST) is a course for interpersonal skills in the workplace in the Work System Support Program for People with Developmental Disabilities, developed by the National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation.
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  • Informant Special Needs Education School for the Mentally Challenged, University of Tsukuba
  • Keywords Communication skills, group work, role-play
  • Created 2019-08-27 15:27:59
  • Updated 2023-12-08 11:28:47