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| Target |
・ Children having difficulty or uncertainty understanding visual and speech information ・ Children having problem building relationship with teachers |
|---|---|
| Disability category | multiple disabilities other deaf-blind |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living instruction of play life unit learning other pre-school education |
| Specific purposes |
・ Induce the target children to realize teachers involved in them ・ Help the children identify a specific teacher(s) and know whether he or she is present or not |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
・ A large percentage of toddlers and children with congenital deaf-blindness have difficulties in communication via visual, speech and sign information. It is necessary to devise means that can be understood by such children. ・ It is important to transmit the necessary information with consistency in a way that is easy for each specific child to understand, such as using tactile and olfactory senses, depending on his or her vision and hearing loss levels. It is crucial to know his or her vision and hearing loss levels, or how much we can use visual and speech information to the child, as well as his or her developmental stage. ・ For a child having difficulty understanding via visual and speech information, name signs that identify individual teachers are one of effective methods for the child to recognize the teachers involved. |
| Expected effects and results |
Name signs help deaf-blind child to: ・ Realize teacher(s) involved in him or her, ・ Recognize a specific teacher(s), receive contacts from the teacher, and try to communicate with the teacher. |
| How to use |
・ Each teachers is to decide his or her symbol or sign, and name himself or herself to the child using the symbol or sign. It is important to transmit who is present, who has come, and other information that identifies persons. ・ Symbols for identifying individual teachers may include a bracelet, apron and specific theme song. ・ Teachers are to wear their name signs on their wrist, and make the child touch their name signs at the same time they name themselves, such as “Ms. XX”. ・ Using the symbols, prepare name sign cards, and use the cards when the teachers’ names are called during morning meetings, etc. |
| Related teaching materials and information | Methods appropriate to each individual child should be investigated based on his or her developmental stage and visual and hearing loss levels. When the child can hear speech, be conscious of transmitting the voice. When vision can be used, present visual information. It is important to transmit the necessary information with consistency in a way that is easy for each specific child to understand. |
| Useful for other students | Such a method can also be used for children and students having multiple disabilities to identify persons, besides those having deaf-blindness. |
- Informant 2021-FY project for supporting practical studies on special needs education of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Enriching guidance and coaching to deaf-blind children), Special Needs Education School for the Visually Imp
- Keywords Name Signs, symbol, sign
- Translator MAKUUCHI Yuko
- Created 2024-03-14 12:26:14
- Updated 2024-03-14 12:29:46