Name of teaching material
An audio (talking) pen self-made product
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Teaching material
| Target | Intellectually disabled children in the elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions who have difficulty with speaking and pronunciation |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | teaching and learning tools, auxiliary aids |
| Specific purposes |
To enable the children to: 1. find out the schedule of a ski-training camp 2. together with others, confirm the schedule of the ski-training camp |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
1. How to use the audio pen When a child has difficulty with fine body movements, use a large card to extend the area that the pen can touch. The desk height is changed, or a slope table used, to make it easy for the children to press the pen. 2. Recording Use audio applications to make the voice easy to listen to, and record teachers’ and friends’ voices to make them familiar to the users. |
| Expected effects and results |
• Students with speech disability were able to play the role of presenter of the schedule. • On the day of the ski-training camp, the students confirmed the schedule by using the audio pen together with friends in the same group. • Theme songs and various teachers’ voices were recorded on the audio pen; the children were able to enjoy these individualized recordings. |
| How to use |
(Creative considerations) Use audio applications to make the voice easy to listen to. Record teachers’ and friends’ voices to encourage familiarity (for learning about the ski-training camp in advance) (How to use) 1. Create a leaflet on the ski-training camp: Have the child attach labels to the corresponding locations while the child listens to the voice recorded on the pen. 2. Confirm the schedule: Have the child confirm the activities, in order, while listening to the recorded voice. Note: We distributed the audio pen and labels to every class to be used in common. |
| Related teaching materials and information |
Creating teaching materials for use with the audio pen enabled us to use them for various learning applications. Children and students recorded their own talks on what they had tried hard to achieve and what they had devised in the process of creating their introduction cards and talking poster.An audio pen, G-Talk (Gridmark Inc., Tokyo), was used. |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Mentally Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords ICT, audio pen
- Created 2017-03-02 14:46:11
- Updated 2023-12-26 14:58:40