Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

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Target	Children and students with hearing impairment Children and students with speech disorder
Disability category	deaf and hard of hearing　speech and language disorder　developmental disabilities　other
Teaching units / Applicable scenes	foreign languages　activities for independent living　instruction for living skills
Specific purposes	The mouth model with self-made tongue helps children and students: - Understand how to make correct sounds (by mainly placing and moving the tongue correctly) - Check how well they understand how to make correct sounds
Considerations for disability characteristics	The model visualizes the position of the tongue (point of articulation) and reduces the difficulty of learning making correct sounds via auditory feedback.
Expected effects and results	- It is easy to understand where to place the tongue (point of articulation). - By moving the model, children and students can check the correct position of the tongue. - The model is big and attracts children to manipulate by themselves.
How to use	- Prepare a tongue with felt. - Place a hand inside the tongue and manipulate it. - Do not use the tongue that comes with the mouth model because it does not move freely.
Related teaching materials and information
Useful for other students	The model is also useful for children and students who want to learn how to make consonant sounds of English and other foreign languages.

Informant KAWAKAMI Ayako, Special Needs Education School for the Deaf, University of Tsukuba　
Keywords pronunciation learning, speech training, self-correction, self-learning, visualization of the mouth and tongue