Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

No.	ID	Name of teaching material	Target	Disability category	Teaching units / Applicable scenes	Movie	PDF
41	21	Communication board	・Children who can understand what is intended in picture and photo cards ・Children who can choose the card that expresses their thoughts or feelings from among many alternatives (picture and photo cards) ・Children who have become somewhat aware of other people ・Children who are at the stage where they want to expand from an one-on-one relationship with a teacher to interaction with other children Elementary division	mentally challenged, autism, emotional disturbance	activities for independent living, instruction for living skills	-	-
42	71	Let’s pull on the band together and make it large and wide! A pull and catch game	Children with intellectual disability (Young children, older children, and students who need to become able to move their bodies in coordination with someone else’s movement. In class, grade 1 to 6 students were paired and used this teaching material.)	mentally challenged	activities for independent living, instruction of play, life unit learning	movie: 1	-
43	89	Rainbow streamers (2015)	From young children in the preschool division to children in the elementary division	mentally challenged	music, physical education, instruction of play, pre-school education	-	-
44	7	Balloon volleyball	Students with intellectual disability in the junior high school division (The aim is to have students with a wide range of conditions engage in the same activity.)	mentally challenged	physical education, other	-	-
45	6	Wiggly maracas	Young children with intellectual disability, older children, and students (young children, older children, and students who need to become able to move their bodies to music and to somebody else’s movement).	mentally challenged	music, activities for independent living	movie: 1	-
46	82	Good points and green points system	Children and students with intellectual disability in the elementary, junior high, and high school divisions (for all children and students regardless of their disability category or level of the disability)	mentally challenged	teaching and learning tools, auxiliary aids	-	-
47	20	Let’s dry ourselves!	・First grade of the elementary division ・Children who seldom dry their own bodies and tend not to consider some areas of their bodies, such as the back of their legs, as part of their own bodies.	mentally challenged, autism	physical education, special activities, activities for independent living	-	-
48	328	OMAKASE (jigsaw) Puzzle (a handmade puzzle with variable difficulty levels)	A child in the second grade of the elementary division who: • had sufficient vocabulary to express himself and understand others and was able to communicate and enjoy using words • was able to read and understand picture books and short sentences • had difficulty writing (even by copying the text) and had little interest in constructive activities such as writing, drawing, playing with puzzles, and doing craftwork	mentally challenged, autism	special activities, activities for independent living, other	-	-
49	276	Transparent overlay map sheets with classified information on each sheet	Children in the third or fourth grades of the elementary division who: • are learning social studies • have difficulty reading maps (elementary division)	physically challenged	social studies	movie: 1	-
50	49	Shape matching to teach the difference between long and short (understanding the concept of length)	Infants and younger and older children with intellectual disabilities, in the kindergarten, elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions (developmental age: about 2 years)	mentally challenged	activities for independent living	-	-