Policies for Persons with Disabilities in Japan from the Viewpoint of a Person with a Disability
Leadership Development Course 2009
- 1. Self introduction - From a special school/institution for children with disabilities to an ordinary school
- 2. Development of the independent living movement and postwar policies for persons with disabilities
- *Outline and aim of Law for Supporting Independence
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Material 1: Looking back on the
experience of living in an institution
(excerpt from a newsletter of an organization of persons with disabilities) - Material 2: All the support is for the realization of community life - “Support” April 2005 issue
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Material 3: “Disabled
Persons' Needs are the Power for Social Resources Development,” included in the June 2002
issue of “Gekkan Fukushi (Monthly Magazine Welfare)”
Koji Onoue, representative of Center for Independent Living - Navi
