{"title":"Easily Readable Braille Pattern for Reading Beginners and Variable Size Braille Printing System","authors":"T. Nishimura, K. Doi","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH015","url":null,"abstract":"Braille as a means of communication for children and persons with visual impairment plays an important role in supporting their social independence. However, learning Braille is very difficult, and many persons with adventitious visual impairment who are not conversant with Braille are unable to read Braille. One likely reason behind this is that the common Braille pattern is not necessarily easy for Braille reading beginners such as persons with adventitious visual impairment. Consequently, it is necessary to quantitatively evaluate the readability of Braille patterns for Braille reading beginners and incorporate such findings in Braille design. Moreover, suitable Braille printers are also required to precisely reproduce easily readable Braille patterns. This chapter describes experiments to evaluate the effect of paper-based Braille on Braille pattern readability and introduces a variable size Braille printing system for printing Braille patterns from the experiments to be easily readable by Braille reading beginners unfamiliar with Braille reading.","PeriodicalId":261663,"journal":{"name":"Handmade Teaching Materials for Students With Disabilities","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125562977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shigeru Ikuta, Saki Nagano, E. Sato, Mikiko Kasai, T. Ezoe, Kyoko Mori, Chikako Kaneko
{"title":"Original Teaching Materials and School Activities With E-Books Containing Media Overlays","authors":"Shigeru Ikuta, Saki Nagano, E. Sato, Mikiko Kasai, T. Ezoe, Kyoko Mori, Chikako Kaneko","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH004","url":null,"abstract":"Original e-book teaching materials containing media overlays were created for use in teaching students with reading disabilities. FUSEe developed by FUSE network, Japan was used to create EPUB 3 e-books, where an audio was replayed with synchronized highlighting of the corresponding text. SMIL language or JavaScript package for iOS, ibooks.js was used to replay the audio reproduction. These EPUB 3 e-books were read effectively with an EPUB 3 reader (for example, iBooks for iOS, and Sony and Kobo Readers for Android). E-books created with special needs school, general school, and Japanese Foreign Language Institute schoolteachers were implemented at many schools for students with reading disabilities and dyslexia. Some assessments of the reading activities were performed to clarify the e-books containing media overlays. Basic information regarding the creation of these e-books and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.","PeriodicalId":261663,"journal":{"name":"Handmade Teaching Materials for Students With Disabilities","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130521147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hands-On Activities to Keep Students With Disabilities Engaged in K-12 Classrooms","authors":"Pankaj Khazanchi, Rashmi Khazanchi","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH008","url":null,"abstract":"The central aim of this chapter is to identify the best practices in hands-on activities to keep students with disabilities engaged in K-12 classrooms. With diversity being a key component in today's classroom, teachers struggle in devising strategies to keep students with disabilities stay engaged. Improving student's learning by keeping them engaged is vital for our nation's competitiveness. Studies have shown the role of hands-on activities in improving engagement of students with disabilities. This chapter will define student engagement and will highlight some of the causes of student disengagement in classroom, relationship between hands-on activities and student engagement, need of hands-on activities/project-based learning in 21st century classrooms, creative ways to implement hands-on activities, connecting hands-on activities with the real-world situations, creating hands-on activities for students with disabilities in self-contained and inclusion classrooms, and matching students' interest and learning styles when developing hands-on activities.","PeriodicalId":261663,"journal":{"name":"Handmade Teaching Materials for Students With Disabilities","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127628007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Gesture-Based Character Recognition Systems for Design of Assistive Technologies for People With Special Necessities","authors":"Ananya Choudhury, K. K. Sarma","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH013","url":null,"abstract":"In the present scenario, around 15% of the world's population experience some form of disability. So, there has been an enormous increase in the demand for assistive techniques for overcoming the restraints faced by people with physical impairments. More recently, gesture-based character recognition (GBCR) has emerged as an assistive tool of immense importance, especially for facilitating the needs of persons with special necessities. Such GBCR systems serve as a powerful mediator for communication among people having hearing and speech impairments. They can also serve as a rehabilitative aid for people with motor disabilities who cannot write with pen on paper, or face difficulty in using common human-machine interactive (HMI) devices. This chapter provides a glimpse of disability prevalence around the globe and particularly in India, emphasizes the importance of learning-based GBCR systems in practical education of differently-abled children, and highlights the novel research contributions made in this field.","PeriodicalId":261663,"journal":{"name":"Handmade Teaching Materials for Students With Disabilities","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129941731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Okawara, T. Koyama, Toshio Shiraishi, Shuko Ishida, C. Shingu, A. Okawara
{"title":"Development of Teaching Materials to Support Learning of Children With Cerebral Palsy in the Japanese Curriculum","authors":"H. Okawara, T. Koyama, Toshio Shiraishi, Shuko Ishida, C. Shingu, A. Okawara","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6240-5.CH007","url":null,"abstract":"In addition to bodily dysfunction, about 30 to 50 percent of children with cerebral palsy have various problems in terms of sight and cognitive aspects. For example, sentences that they speak or write are redundant and cannot be summarized. Finding a coherent word or sentence is sometimes difficult for them. It is also difficult to draw a solid on a plane; to recognize the ground from the figure; to capture things while maintaining objective and panoramic viewpoints; to think on the other side. Causes for these difficulties have not yet been elucidated. Teachers are working on effective teaching methods and materials and development for these children's phenomena every day. This study summarizes the practical examples of the teaching materials developed at the school site in Japan and their effects and usefulness.","PeriodicalId":261663,"journal":{"name":"Handmade Teaching Materials for Students With Disabilities","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128823111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}