October 27, 2008 PM: Lecture: “Welfare Service and Measures for Persons with Disabilities
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Training Report - Leadership Development Course 2008
The first training program took place this afternoon.
An associate professor of Department of Social Work at Saitama Prefectural University and a planning committee member of this training course, gave a lecture on the welfare service and measures for persons with disabilities in Japan.
Firstly she explained the major Japanese laws which developed between 1945 and 1960, such as Child Welfare Laws, and other laws concerning persons with physical, mental and intellectual disabilities respectively. She then described an overview of persons with disabilities in Japan by giving information such as the number of people with disabilities, categories of physical disabilities etc. Then the development of Japanese measures after the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) in 1981 was explained in the international context.
She proceeded to talk about the welfare services in more details focusing on education and employment spheres. The statistical information, historical development, and the current situation and challenges were explained. The participants raised a lot of questions comparing with the situations in their countries.
