Handmade Content and School Activities for Autistic Children with Expressive Language Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 464-493
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Chiho Urushihata ◽  
Kyoko Yamaguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Language Disabilities ◽  
Audio Recordings

Original teaching materials with dot codes, which can be linked to multimedia such as audio, movies, Web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created for use with autistic children with intellectual and expressive language disabilities. A maximum of four audio recordings can be linked to one dot code icon. One of the authors (S. I.) also created “Post-it” icons, on which dot codes were printed, and shared these with teachers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). As part of this project, many activities using dot code materials were successfully conducted at special needs and general schools. Basic information on the creation of these materials and their use in schools are presented in this paper.

Handmade Content and School Activities for Autistic Children with Expressive Language Disabilities

2017 ◽  
pp. 85-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Chiho Urushihata ◽  
Kyoko Yamaguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Language Disabilities ◽  
Audio Recordings

Original teaching materials with dot codes, which can be linked to multimedia such as audio, movies, Web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created for use with autistic children with intellectual and expressive language disabilities. A maximum of four audio recordings can be linked to one dot code icon. One of the authors (S. I.) also created “Post-it” icons, on which dot codes were printed, and shared these with teachers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). As part of this project, many activities using dot code materials were successfully conducted at special needs and general schools. Basic information on the creation of these materials and their use in schools are presented in this paper.

School Activities for Autistic Children Using Newly Developed Software and Tools

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Chisato Ouchi ◽  
Jinko Tomiyama ◽  
Yayoe Katagiri ◽  
Shoko Hoshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Language Disabilities ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

Original teaching materials with dot codes were created for use with autistic children with intellectual and expressive language disabilities. One of the authors (S. I.) created “Post-it” sticker icons on which dot codes were printed and shared these with teachers of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Each sticker icon was linked with up to four multimedia mediums of expression, such as a movie, in addition to up to four voices/sounds. Touching a dot code icon with a speaking-pen enables audios to be replayed, and touching a dot code icon with a dot-code reader with Bluetooth functionality enables multimedia to be replayed on iOS and Windows OS devices. New software to create self-made teaching materials with dot codes was developed by Gridmark Inc., with the help of author S. I. Basic information on creating original teaching materials using this newly developed software and its use in schools for students with ASD are presented in this chapter.

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Technologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 263-276
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Invisible

The author has been using new dot codes developed independently by Gridmark, Inc. and Apollo Japan and conducting school activities with original handmade teaching materials overlaid with these dot codes in collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world. In the chapter, just touching the “invisible” dot codes printed on the paper or symbol icons by using a sound pen clearly reproduces voices and sounds. By using a scanner pen connected to a tablet or PC, multimedia sources such as movies, web pages, and PowerPoint files, in addition to voices and sounds, can be reproduced on its screen. In this chapter, state-of-the-art dot code technology including a recently developed new application for a smart phone is outlined, and basic information regarding the creation of original handmade materials using dot codes and the use at both general and special needs schools is presented.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities With Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Satsuki Yamashita ◽  
Hayato Higo ◽  
Jinko Tomiyama ◽  
Noriko Saotome ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Authoring Tool ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Creation

Original teaching materials with dot codes, which can be linked to multimedia such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files, were created for use with students with disabilities. Hand-crafted original teaching materials can easily be created by the users themselves—for example, by schoolteachers—with newly developed and easy-to-handle software. A maximum of four multimedia files can be linked to each Post-It sticker icon and/or dot codes overlaid with a specially-designed software (GM Authoring Tool), and such multimedia files are replayed with a specially-designed sound pen (G-Speak) and scanner pen (G-Pen Blue) with Bluetooth functionality just by using the pen to touch the Post-It sticker icon and/or the dot codes on the printed document. Many activities using dot code materials have been successfully conducted, especially at special needs schools. Basic information on the creation of these materials—and on their use in schools—is presented in this chapter.

scholarly journals Religion and Resilience of Parents with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Paschalis Kavaliotis
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

The resilience of parents with children with autism is a key concept in the confrontation of the autism challenges which demand parents who are mentally healthy and who will be in a position to satisfy the special needs of their autistic children, however, without sinking into loneliness and isolation which affect the less resistant families and upset their inner balance. The parents resort to various sources for the strengthening of resilience, it is the power of God both as a cause of the origin of autism and as the unique or one of the possible ways of resolving the problem. This survey investigated the views on divine will as to the origin and confrontation of autism in families of Christians and Muslims and it attempted to highlight the possible differences in the culture of these groups that are different in terms of culture and religion. The parents of 312 autistic children in Greece, all of them couples, namely 624 men and women, constituted the population sample. The quantitative survey results showed that the Greek Christians satisfy more efficiently their child’s needs, perhaps because they attribute lesser importance to the factor of the Divine compared to the parents of other religions. The weaker connection between the origin and management of the disease and the Divine will allows them to invest in scientific help for addressing a problem which in fact they perceive in more positive social terms than the Muslims do.

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Technologies

2018 ◽  
pp. 6464-6475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Present Author ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The present author has been using new dot codes developed independently by Gridmark, Inc. and Apollo Japan, and conducting school activities with original handmade teaching materials overlaid with these dot codes in collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world. In our work, just touching the “invisible” dot codes printed on the paper or symbol icons by using a sound pen clearly reproduces voices and sounds. By using a scanner pen connected to a tablet or PC, multimedia sources such as movies, Web pages, and PowerPoint files, in addition to voices and sounds, can be reproduced on its screen. In this article, state-of-the-art dot code technology including a recently developed new application for a smart phone is outlined, and basic information regarding the creation of original handmade materials using dot codes and the use at both general and special needs schools is presented.

School Activities Using Handmade Teaching Materials with Dot Codes

2013 ◽  
pp. 220-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Emi Endo ◽  
Satomi Kaiami ◽  
Takahide Ezoe
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Communication Aids ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Audio Files

Practitioners have been using three communication aids in conducting many school activities at both special needs and regular schools. In the simplest system, voices and sounds are transformed into dot codes, edited with pictures and text, and printed out with an ordinary color printer; the printed dot codes are traced to be decoded into the originals by using a handy tool, Sound Reader. In the most complex system, in addition to audio files, multiple media files such as movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files can be linked to each dot code; just touching the printed dot code with sound or scanner pens reproduces their audio or multimedia, respectively. The present chapter reports the software and hardware used in developing originally handmade teaching materials with dot codes and various school activities performed at both special needs and regular schools.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities for Students With an Intellectual Disability

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Youko Sugita ◽  
Susumu Nakamura ◽  
Toru Iijima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Software Program ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Large Research

Most of the present authors, the teachers at the School for the Mentally Challenged at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba, have been creating original teaching aids and materials using low-tech and high-tech methods. Original teaching aids created with woodworking and metalworking are usually used for students with an intellectual disability. The original teaching materials with Grid Onput dot code, which could link multimedia, such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created in collaboration with one of the present authors, Professor Shigeru Ikuta, who organized a large research project, and Gridmark Inc. that developed Grid Onput dot code. The present authors have recently developed a new software program, SmileNote, to help students create presentation slides in expressing their feelings, will, and desires to classmates, teachers, and parents. Basic information on these materials and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities for Students With an Intellectual Disability

2022 ◽  
pp. 913-934
Author(s):  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Youko Sugita ◽  
Susumu Nakamura ◽  
Toru Iijima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Software Program ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Large Research

Most of the present authors, the teachers at the School for the Mentally Challenged at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba, have been creating original teaching aids and materials using low-tech and high-tech methods. Original teaching aids created with woodworking and metalworking are usually used for students with an intellectual disability. The original teaching materials with Grid Onput dot code, which could link multimedia, such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created in collaboration with one of the present authors, Professor Shigeru Ikuta, who organized a large research project, and Gridmark Inc. that developed Grid Onput dot code. The present authors have recently developed a new software program, SmileNote, to help students create presentation slides in expressing their feelings, will, and desires to classmates, teachers, and parents. Basic information on these materials and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.

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