In response to the implementation of the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities 2016, universities have urgently needed to establish support coordinators and improve their software and services. However, universities that have little experience in accepting students with disabilities have no choice but to build a system in the dark when developing a support system, and it takes a lot of time to smoothly manage and implement support for students with disabilities.
In order to solve these issues, we will publish the materials of the three universities (Kyoto University, Kyoto Sangyo University, and Doshisha University) provided in the Foundation’s designated research project (see below) conducted in FY2016.
The tacit knowledge accumulated by the coordinators is “visualized” by sharing information on materials, and is open to the public in the hope of improving the skills of support staff and raising the quality of support for students with disabilities at each university.
We would appreciate it if you could improve it according to the support environment and policies of each university.
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Guidelines, Operational Rules, Coordinator Duties, Application for Consideration, Support Student Recruitment Methods, etc.
Reference: FY2016 Designated Survey Topics
| theme | Establishment of a database of accessibility and reasonable accommodations for the elimination of discrimination against persons with disabilities at universities Toward the Establishment of a Collaborative Organization for the Office of Support for Students with Disabilities |
| Principal Investigator | Satoshi Yoshida (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University) |
| Background and Objectives of the Research | In response to the enforcement of the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities in 2016, there is an urgent need for universities to establish a support coordinator for students with disabilities, to understand and improve the physical environment on campus, and to improve the software and service environment that supports education and research. In addition, there are many different forms of support such as reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities, and the individual knowledge and know-how of the staff in charge of responding to them are not shared, and depending on the employment status of the staff, they remain buried and are not shared both inside and outside the university. In connection with this, we will significantly increase the level of progress in efforts to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities at universities in the wake of the enactment of the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination on the Grounds of Disability in FY2016 by building a database that covers the knowledge of efforts at each university, and to bring it to the same level as or exceed that of developed UD countries, and to create new initiatives for the elimination of discrimination against persons with disabilities. The purpose of this course is to present the possibility of a project led by the University Consortium Kyoto. In particular, the purpose of this study is to “visualize” the tacit knowledge and skills of the faculty and staff in charge, such as the know-how for constructive dialogue and consensus-building with relevant faculty members, as well as methods for raising awareness and disseminating information, which the support coordinators for students with disabilities at each university have accumulated in their practice, and to present guidelines that can be shared with university staff who have not yet established a sufficient support organization for students with disabilities on campus. |
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