Name of teaching material
Target |
• Students at the High School Division (15 - 17 years old) • Students who can communicate verbally |
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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. |
Useful for other students |