Name of teaching material
Push and fall! (Tama-ire [put a ball in a hole] and Kata-hame [shape sorter] on the desk) self-made product
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| Target |
Congenitally visually impaired children in the kindergarten and elementary divisions However, children without visual impairment or intellectual disability can still enjoy the game. Kindergarten and elementary divisions. |
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| Disability category | visual impairment |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living |
| Specific purposes |
◯ To enable children to enjoy activities that involve moving the fingers and hands ◎ To urge the children to search for objects with both hands ◯ To enable the children to improve the motor skills of the fingers ◯ Increasing the variety of teaching materials increases the number of directions (such as longitudinal, transverse, and oblique) and shapes (such as a circle, triangle, and square) that children come to understand through the movement of their hands. ◯ To enable the children to improve their communication abilities, for example, by saying, “I want to do it again,” and “More.” |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | • The ball is pressed into the hole with the finger and falls down into the box below, making a sound. The children’s action is thus immediately fed back to them aurally. |
| Expected effects and results | • This teaching material will enable the children to act with enthusiasm while enjoying the game and to voluntarily communicate with others, saying “I want to do it again!” |
| How to use |
• Make the diameter of holes almost equal to that of the balls, so that pressing a ball creates a certain amount of tactile resistance. • Place the teaching material on a mat placed on the table so that it doesn’t move; align it approximately with the level of the child’s navel. • In a manner appropriate to their developmental stage, urge the children to arrange and clean up the balls by themselves. • In a manner appropriate to their developmental stage, urge the children to touch and handle the teaching material so they can understand its structure. |
| Related teaching materials and information | • This activity can be developed into the Tamasashi-ban (ball stick board) activity produced and sold by Gakken Holdings Co., Ltd. |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Aural feedback, finger dexterity, hand searching
- Created 2017-03-02 14:51:17
- Updated 2020-06-08 14:26:46