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
51	284	A balloon-hitting practice device	Younger and older children who have difficulty hitting a balloon quickly and accurately along to the balloon movement. (elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions)	physically challenged	physical education, activities for independent living	-	-
52	326	Match the Shapes	A child aged 8 years in the elementary division who was able to distinguish rough shapes and was developing the ability to cope with other people	mentally challenged, autism	arithmetic, mathematics, activities for independent living	-	-
53	253	Simple self-help devices	Younger and older children who: • have difficulties holding a pencil or ink brush • have problems writing with a regular pencil (elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions)	physically challenged	drawing and crafts, art, life studies, teaching and learning tools, auxiliary aids, other	-	-
54	56	Physical education notice board	• Students in the upper secondary division with intellectual disabilities	mentally challenged	physical education, instruction for living skills, teaching and learning tools, auxiliary aids	-	-
55	48	Transparent cylinders to teach the difference between heavy and light (understanding the concept of weight)	Intellectually disabled infants and younger and older children in the kindergarten, elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions (developmental age: about 2 years)	mentally challenged	activities for independent living	-	-
56	47	Communication card	Students with: • intellectual disabilities (lower secondary and upper secondary divisions) • difficulty using two-word sentences to ask others for things	mentally challenged	activities for independent living	-	-
57	59	Words that make each other happy: “Well-done cards”	Children who are enrolled, or take special support services in resource rooms, in the following: preschools; nursery schools; regular classes of elementary school or junior high school; classes for the emotionally disturbed; special support classes; and special needs schools (kindergarten, elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions)	mentally challenged	special activities, instruction for living skills, pre-school education, teaching and learning tools, auxiliary aids	-	-
58	77	Slides for an elective English class	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.)	mentally challenged	foreign languages	-	-
59	46	A rasp fixation stand	Children and students with difficulties rasping while holding a wooden product or work because of upper limb palsy or underdeveloped coordination motion of both hands. (elementary, lower secondary, and upper secondary divisions)	mentally challenged, physically challenged	drawing and crafts, art, life unit learning	-	-
60	81	Number jump	Children with various conditions (At our school, we performed this activity with students who were able to count from 1 to 9 and with those whom teachers wanted to be able to jump continuously while enjoying exercising.	mentally challenged	physical education, activities for independent living, other	-	-