Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

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Target	Students with intellectual disabilities (Slides were made for five students from the first to third grades of the lower secondary division and used in class.)
Disability category	mentally challenged
Teaching units / Applicable scenes	foreign languages
Specific purposes	To enable the students to better understand the course content and actively participate in class by using visual means.
Considerations for disability characteristics	• The size of the characters and the amount of information are taken into consideration to make the slides easy to understand. • Colors are taken into consideration to make the combination of words and illustrations easy to understand.
Expected effects and results	Music CDs were used in class. Slides were displayed on an electronic blackboard placed to the side at the front of the classroom, so that students were able to read the slides individually. As the students have become used to this system, they have become able to respond to the teacher’s words without looking at the slides.
How to use	• The teacher shows the slides. • Use a CD (“Head, Shoulders, and Knees;” lyrics: unknown, English folk song) to make it easier for the students to express themselves with looking at the slides.
Related teaching materials and information	• Commercially available English song CDs
Useful for other students

Informant Special Needs Education School for the Mentally Challenged, University of Tsukuba
Keywords English