Name of teaching material
Communication card self-made product
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Teaching material
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usage scene
| Target |
Students with: • intellectual disabilities (lower secondary and upper secondary divisions) • difficulty using two-word sentences to ask others for things |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living |
| Specific purposes |
To enable the students to: (1) verbalize their needs correctly to others (their support persons) (2) learn two-word sentences (3) increase the variety of favorite things that they can tell others about |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | When students state only the name of the video they want to watch, the teacher verbally adds a function word, such as a preposition, to elicit subsequent words from the children. When the children say only a request word (for example, “show” or “give”), the teacher verbally asks them, “What?” or “Which?” The teacher gradually reduces the children’s support by offering them fewer and fewer words. |
| Expected effects and results | The students have become able to use two-word sentences as well as one-word sentences when voluntarily asking others, and they can now communicate with their support persons more easily. The use of illustrations helped enable the students to communicate with others more easily, even when they were not able to speak clearly. |
| How to use | Have the student borrow a PC, saying “Would you lend me your PC?” during a break. Get the student to use a communication card to ask a support person to lend them their favorite video. As the number of favorite videos increases, increase the number of cards so that the students can increase the number of favorite items that they can voluntarily tell others about.The visual aid symbol collection Drops was used. |
| Related teaching materials and information | A visual aid symbol collection, Drops, was used. |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Mentally Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Letter card
- Created 2017-03-02 14:30:10
- Updated 2023-12-26 15:08:40