Name of teaching material
Mats to show where individual children are to put their shoes self-made product
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| Target |
Children in kindergarten and elementary school Children who have not yet learned letters |
|---|---|
| Disability category | visual impairment mentally challenged deaf-blind |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | instruction for living skills pre-school education |
| Specific purposes | The mats help children to find the places where they should put their shoes by seeing and/or touching. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
・ Mats of mutually different colors and textures were prepared so that children with different levels of eye sight can know where to put their shoes by seeing or/and touching. (In the photo shown above, the materials are, from left to right, one-sided corrugated cardboard, cork, shiny paper and bubble wrap.) ・ The mats were aligned so that it is easy to feel the differences in color and texture. |
| Expected effects and results |
・ The mats can be easily placed anywhere (even outside shoe shelves) and enable children to find the places for their shoes even when they visit places other than their school. ・ Drawing or writing the marks or names of individual children makes them realize their marks and names (hiragana or braille). ・ Aligning the mats facilitate children find their places by touching and elicits their voluntary actions of putting their shoes on their mats. ・ Aligning the mats helps children be aware of the positional relationships with next mats and the order of numbers. |
| How to use | ・ Prepare mats and spread them at a place where children are to put their shoes to encourage them do it by themselves. |
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| Useful for other students |
- Informant Kindergarten Division, Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords visual impairment, deaf-blind, tactile sense
- Created 2025-02-05 15:17:36
- Updated 2025-02-14 10:23:18