Name of teaching material
Watching the ball to the beat self-made product
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| Target |
The children like playing with a ball (e.g. throwing the ball in the air or rolling it). They struggle with gazing and manipulating objects they hold in their hands and maintaining their gazes on the presented objects. The children learned to lay out objects in response to the instructor’s rhythmical counting one at a time. |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged autism |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | arithmetic, mathematics activities for independent living |
| Specific purposes |
The children gaze at the balls in front of them and move the balls in order from left to right. The children listen to the teacher speak and count, and move the balls to the goal spaces one at a time. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
To help the children understand the start and end of the task, the first goal consists of a hoop, and the final goal consists of a bucket. To help the children understand where to move the ball, we created a contrast by using blue for the background and yellow for the goal. |
| Expected effects and results | The children learned to lay out objects in response to the instructor’s rhythmical counting one at a time. |
| How to use |
1. The instructor presents the ball, holding it next to his/her face, and tells the child that this is the beginning of the task. 2. When the child places the ball in the middle of the hoop, the instructor signals the start of the task by saying “ready, go!” 3. When the child starts moving the ball, the instructor counts to the rhythm of the child’s motion (“one-two”). 4. Once the child learns to move the ball in time with the instructor’s rhythmical counting, the instructor changes the rhythm. 5. Once the child has put the ball into the bucket, the instructor waits for the child to make eye contact. Once the child makes eye contact, the instructor congratulates the child and tells him/her that the task is over. |
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- Informant Special Needs Education School for Children with Autism, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Autism, arithmetic
- Created 2020-11-23 20:05:40
- Updated 2020-11-23 20:06:04