The number of registered persons with intellectual disabilities in Akita prefecture was 1,506 as of August, 2004. This represents an increase of 45 people, or 3.1%, compared to the preceding year. It is noteworthy that this represents an increase of 1.3%, or 20 people, compared with the fiscal year 1989 (1,486 persons). When this figure is broken down according to degree of severity, the ratio of persons with a mild to moderate degree of disability is 57.3% (863 people), the ratio of people with severe or profoundly severe disability is 27.3% (411 people), and the ratio of persons with severe intellectual and physical disabilities is 15.4% (232 persons).
1. Present State of Children with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities
(1) State of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
| (August 1, 2004) | |||||||
| Breakdown Degree
of Severity |
Mild | Moderate | Severe | Profoundly severe | Severe Intellectual and physical disabilities |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 386 | 477 | 383 | 28 | 232 | 1,506 | |
| Breakdown | Institutionalized | 31 | 63 | 66 | 3 | 50 | 213 |
| Home – based | 355 | 414 | 317 | 25 | 182 | 1,293 |
(2) Number of Children Issued Certificate of Persons with Disability
| (March 31, 2005) | |||||||
| Physical disability | According to Degree of Severity | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 | ||
| Visual impairments | 14 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 31 |
| Hearing impairments / disequilibrium | 3 | 25 | 28 | 21 | 0 | 24 | 101 |
| Orthopedic disability | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Internal disability | 215 | 145 | 24 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 419 |
| Internal disability | 68 | 3 | 53 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 149 |
| Total | 68 | 181 | 106 | 69 | 20 | 30 | 706 |
