Developing Teaching Materials and tools for Students with Muscular Dystrophy

Table Mable Game， Board Baseball， Floor Reverse

Abstract

A special needs school developed a table marble game, board baseball, and floor reverse for students with muscular dystrophy. In the table marble game, students hit a glass marble toward a donut drawn on the board. In board baseball, students hit the ball on four types of colored boards placed on the floor. In floor reverse, students rolled a ball to get into an area of 16 squares of jointed mats on the floor. The main factors for developing the teaching materials and tools for the students were as follows: 1) To adopt systems that change their small actions to higher-power functions, 2) To create teaching materials that enable students to learn in a group to enhance their communication skills and create interpersonal relationships, 3) To provide auxiliary tools that help students catch the sound of a bat hitting the ball and feel vibrations on their hands, and 4) To change the rules and settings according to the situation by paying attention to student requests.