Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

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Target	An older group of infants in the kindergarten division who: • had never made a large object from cardboard and played with it • liked playing on a slide and climbing up high
Disability category	mentally challenged　autism
Teaching units / Applicable scenes	instruction of play　pre-school education
Specific purposes	• Through the production of a slide—an infant’s favorite—from cardboard, to make the infants interested in the cardboard and motivate them to make things from this material.
Considerations for disability characteristics	• The cardboard slide was strong enough not to break, even if the infants jumped on the slide or if an infant and a teacher slid down it together. • To make the infants interested in the slide, it was made higher and steeper than the ordinary slide present in the kindergarten division.
Expected effects and results	• Many of the infants became interested in the cardboard slide. They rolled balls from the top of the slide and slid on it. • The infants played with the cardboard creatively; they tried to unite a cardboard house and tunnel (which had been made while they were playing with the cardboard) to the cardboard slide.
How to use	1. Slide on the slide. 2. Slide balls and toy cars on the slide.
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Informant Special Needs Education School for Children with Autism,University of Tsukuba
Keywords Slide, cardboard, production activity, play