Gifted School Activities With DropTalk, Parent-Teacher Notebook, and SmileNote for Students With Disabilities

Gifted School Activities With DropTalk, Parent-Teacher Notebook, and SmileNote for Students With Disabilities

Takamitsu Aoki, Noriko Nakagawa, Ryoichi Ishitobi, Susumu Nakamura, Shoko Inoue, Makoto Kinoshita, Masayuki Yamashita, Shigeru Ikuta
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3670-7.ch037
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Abstract

Three programs, DropTalk, Parent-Teacher Notebook, and SmileNote, were developed by teachers at schools for special needs education to help students with various disabilities, in collaboration with businesses supportive of students with disabilities. DropTalk was developed to help students with nonverbal communication by using Pictogram and text overlaid with voice/sound. A digital-based Parent-Teacher Notebook was developed to share the valuable data on each student between their home and school. The shared data are effectively used to build up individual support plans. SmileNote was developed to help students with nonverbal communication disabilities present their wills, hopes, and desires to the classmates and others. In this chapter, the aims and valuable functions in three software applications are described in detail, and self-made contents created with the software and gifted school activities conducted at several schools for special needs education are depicted.
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Background

Teachers – especially at schools for special needs education – face the fact that the software and tools do not fit the needs of all of their students. Then, the teachers always have to update their knowledge to solve new faced problems. Even if teachers could discover new, effective software and tools that might solve these problems, they may not buy them because they may be expensive. Although many school teachers might abandon the attempt to solve these problems, some may try to develop new software and tools themselves.

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