Social Contribution Activities

Committee members, etc.

  • Expert member of the Central Council for Education (Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee, Curriculum Subcommittee, Special Support Education Subcommittee) (October 2015 - February 2017)
  • Chairperson, Round-Table Meeting for the Promotion of Special Support Education, Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education (June 2015-)
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, "Educational Support Materials" Editorial collaborator (2013)
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the Project for Comprehensive Promotion of Special Support Education (June 2012 - March 2015)
  • Shobara City Board of Education, Traveling Consultant for Special Support Education (LD, etc.) (Apr. 2010-)
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, Traveling Consultant for Special Support Education (LD, etc.) (Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2012)
  • Hiroshima City Board of Education, Traveling Consultant for Special Support Education (LD, etc.) (Apr. 2009-)
  • Kure City Board of Education, Traveling Consultant for Special Support Education (LD, etc.) (Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2018)
  • Member of the Classroom Guidance Class (Language Disorders) Classroom Review Committee, Otake City Board of Education (December 2007 - March 2016)
  • Director, Hiroshima International School (August 2008 - June 2010)

Lectures

FA 2015

  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Project for Enhancing the Expertise of Teachers and Staff on Developmental Disabilities, Symposium on Teaching Subjects, "How to Think about Special Support and Inclusive Support in Subject Education?
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, National Liaison Conference on Consultation Support Services for Children and Persons with Disabilities, "Cooperation between Special Support Education and Disability Welfare
  • Promotion of special support education", Western Regional Training Course of Hiroshima Prefectural Federation of School Principal Associations
  • JICA training course for education administrators in Asia and Africa, "Special Needs Education & Inclusive Education in Japan" (in Japanese)
  • Yamaguchi City Board of Education, "Rational Consideration and Human Rights in Inclusive Education System" (in Japanese)
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, FY2015 Advanced Workshop on Center-like Functions of Special Support Schools, "What is Required for Center-like Functions - Support for Classroom Guidance Classrooms
  • Yamaguchi Prefectural Board of Education, Shunan City Board of Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Inclusive Education System Model School Project, Faculty Training, "Educational Considerations in Inclusive Education
  • Toyama Prefectural Board of Education, Faculty and staff training lecture, "Issues in the organization and implementation of curricula based on the Courses of Study
  • FY2015 Advanced Workshop on Center-like Functions of Special Support Schools, "What is Required of Center-like Functions: Support for Classroom Guidance Classrooms
  • Special training lecture, Hiroshima Prefectural Education Center, "Understanding and teaching of infants and children with language disorders
  • Kure City Junior High School Special Needs Education Group, Faculty, and Staff Training Lecture, "Behavioral Disorders Related to Developmental Disabilities
  • Open lecture at Tokyo Gakugei University, "What the expertise of language disorder education can contribute to the construction of an inclusive education system."

FA 2014

  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), lecture on rational consideration, "The future of rational consideration and environmental improvement: a comparison with accommodation, strategy, and modification in the United States
  • Hiroshima City Minami Elementary School, Faculty and Staff Training Lecture, "Support in the Regular Classroom from the Perspective of Special Support Education
  • Nakadori Elementary School, Takehara City, Faculty and Staff Training Lecture, "Teaching Practice in the Regular Classroom Introducing Rational Consideration
  • Himeji City Board of Education, Himeji City General Education Center, 2014 Power-up Workshop, "Practice of Inclusive Education: Classroom Creation to Meet the Needs of All Children
  • Tokushima Prefectural General Education Center, Special Support Education Coordinator Workshop, "Understanding and Teaching Children with Language Disabilities
  • Kure City Shiratake Elementary School, Faculty and Staff Training Lecture, "Support for children with diversity: How to respond to children's needs
  • Hiroshima City Nagatsuka Elementary School, Faculty and Staff Training Lecture, "How to Practice Inclusive Education
  • Hiroshima University Shinonome Elementary School, Faculty and Staff Training Lecture, "Issues for Building an Inclusive Education System and the Way of Rational Consideration and Basic Environmental Improvement
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Shobara Special Support School, Faculty and Staff Training Lecture, "Language Development and Its Disorders
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, 2014 Advanced Workshop on Center-like Functions of Special Support Schools, "Devising Instruction According to Disability Characteristics - Support in Traveling Consultation
  • National Institute for Special Needs Education, Special Support Education Special Training Lecture, "Psychology and Children with Language Disorders
  • Otake City Board of Education, Hiroshima Prefecture, Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop, "Multifaceted Approach to Stuttering

FY 2013

  • Kyoto Language Disorders Study Group, 142nd Regular Meeting, "Understanding and Supporting Children Who Stutter: Focusing on a Multifaceted and Comprehensive Approach
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Education Center, Special Training Lecture, "Understanding and Teaching Students with Speech Disorders
  • The 17th Kinki Block Conference of the National Association for Research on Education of Deafness and Speech Disorders in Public Schools, Stuttering Sectional Meeting, "Multifaceted and Comprehensive Support for Students who Stutter
  • Faculty and staff training lecture, Hiroshima Prefectural Shobara Special Needs School, "Phonological and linguistic development and its disorders
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, FY2013 Advanced Workshop on Center-like Functions of Special Support Schools, "Devising Instruction According to Disability Characteristics: Support in Traveling Consultation
  • National Institute for Special Needs Education, FY2013 Training Project on "Reasonable Accommodation," "The Future of Reasonable Accommodation and Basic Environmental Improvement: From the Comparison with Accommodation Modification in the United States."
  • Osaka University of Education, Special Support School, Kindergarten, Hirano Elementary School, Hirano Junior High School, Hirano Senior High School, Model Project for Building Inclusive Education System, "How Japanese School Education Responds to Diversity?
  • National Institute for Special Needs Education, Lecture on special needs education, "Language impaired children and psychology
  • Education Seminar Chugoku 2014, Special Support Education Section Meeting, "Formation of Power of Living for Students with Disabilities: From Teaching Social Skills to Teaching Life Skills
  • Otake City Board of Education, Hiroshima Prefecture, "Multifaceted Approach to Stuttering," Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop
  • Japan Federation for Developmental Disabilities, 2013 Medical Seminar on Developmental Disabilities: Understanding and Supporting Developmental Disabilities from Early Childhood, "Supporting Language and Communication from Early Childhood

FA 2012

  • Takehara City Nakadori Elementary School in-school workshop, "Understanding and teaching children with developmental disabilities
  • Kure Iroha-kai, "Support for children with autism - from the perspective of communication
  • Kansai Okura Gakuen Academic Experience, "Human communication and its inhibiting factors
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, 2012 Advanced Training Seminar for the Center-like Functions of Special Support Schools, "Devising Instruction According to Disability Characteristics: Understanding and Supporting the Actual Conditions of Students Who Stutter
  • Hiroshima Prefectural Onomichi Special Needs School, Open Lecture Meeting, "Teaching Children with Difficulties in Reading and Writing: Focusing on the Relationship between Phonological Awareness and Reading and Writing
  • Otake City Board of Education, Hiroshima Prefecture, Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop, "Teaching Mid-term Stuttering
  • National Institute for Special Needs Education, lecture on special support education, "Psychology and children with language disorders
  • Open class study group, Hiroshima Prefectural Mihara Special Support School, "Devising support for healthy development of self-affirmation
  • The 2nd Workshop on Inclusive Home Economics, "Change with a little effort! Creating Understandable Classes in Home Economics" (in Japanese)
  • 3rd Workshop on Inclusive Home Economics, "Evaluation of students in inclusive classes

FA 2011

  • Stuttering Education Clinical Study Group, "Flow of Stuttering Clinical Practice: From the Assessment Method Using CALMS
  • Lecture on Special Support Education, Hiroshima University, 2011 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Research on Elucidation of Symptoms of Language Disorders and Their Therapy Considering Universality and Individuality of Language (Project No. 2330083), "Importance of Comprehensive and Integrated Assessment of Stuttering
  • Open Class Workshop, Hiroshima Prefectural Mihara Special Needs School, "How to support students to develop a sense of self-affirmation that leads to the power of life
  • Otake City Board of Education, Hiroshima Prefecture, Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop, "Language Development and its Disorders
  • Hiroshima Autism Society Lecture Meeting, "Autistic Children and Communication

FY 2010

  • Yamagata Language Clinical Education Study Group, "Understanding and Teaching Children Who Stutter" (in Japanese)
  • 2010 1st Workshop for Special Support Education Assistants, "Understanding and supporting students who need special educational support."
  • Workshop of Kure City Elementary and Junior High School Education Study Group, "Support for students who have difficulties in learning
  • Workshop of Hiroshima City School Counselor Utilization Project Liaison Council and Fureai Hiroba Promoter, "Understanding students with developmental issues
  • Training session for coordinators of support education, Toyonaka City Board of Education, Osaka Prefecture: "Classroom development to meet the needs of all children: From the translation of 'Practice of Inclusive Education
  • Workshop for teachers and staff of Mihara Gakuen attached to Hiroshima University: "Understanding and supporting students who need special educational support
  • Evaluation and Clinical Practice of Phonological and Dysarthric Disorders," Otake City Board of Education, Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop, Hiroshima, Japan

FA 2009

  • Research Council of the National Institute for Special Needs Education, Research on the development of training programs to improve the professionalism of teachers involved in special needs education, "Training system for improving the professionalism of speech therapists in the United States."
  • Public lecture at Tokyo Gakugei University, "Practices and issues in special support education: From the approaches of the United States and Hiroshima Prefecture
  • Commemorative lecture for the Society for the Study of Language Development, "Understanding and teaching children who stutter" (in Japanese)
  • Special Support Education Lecture, Hiroshima City Education Center, "Understanding and supporting children who stutter" (in Japanese)
  • Hiroshima Prefecture Speech-Language-Hearing Association Workshop, "How Speech-Language-Hearing Professionals Support Children with Developmental Disabilities
  • Hiroshima Branch Seminar of the Down Syndrome Association of Japan, "How to Support Communication to Nurture the Heart - Focusing on Children with Down Syndrome
  • Hiroshima University Shinonome Junior High School, 2009 Educational Research Meeting, "Creating a Classroom in which Students with and without Disabilities Can Learn Together: About Accommodations and Modifications in the United States
  • Open Lecture at Hiroshima Minami Special Needs School, Kure Branch, "How to understand the actual situation of children with hearing disabilities and its methods
  • Open lecture at Hiroshima Minami Special Support School, "The point of making individual teaching plan - setting of the goal and evaluation method
  • Exploring the Mystery of Communication: The Influence of Difficulties in Speech and Hearing," Kure Mitsuda High School, Hiroshima
  • Special Needs Education Workshop, Kure Central Elementary School, "How to support children according to their educational needs

FY 2008

  • Hiroshima Prefecture Research Council for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Language Education, "Support for Children with Educational Needs
  • Hiroshima City Board of Education, 2008 Special Needs Education Counselor Workshop, "Consultation for infants and children with developmental disabilities
  • Special Support Education Workshop, Hiroshima University Mihara Gakuen, "Support for infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities
  • Open class workshop at Kure Branch of Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Minami Special Needs School, "Creating classes according to the characteristics of hearing disabilities: How to present visual information and teaching materials to make students interested in social events
  • In-school training session at Showa Higashi Elementary School, Kure City, "Support for children with "concerns" in regular classes
  • Japan Down Syndrome Association, Hiroshima Branch, Seminar for parents of children with Down syndrome, "How to support communication for children with Down syndrome
  • Shinonome Elementary School attached to Hiroshima University, The 114th Shinonome Educational Research Meeting, Thematic Section Meeting (Special Support), "The basic idea of exchange and joint learning and how it should be".
  • Shinonome Junior High School Attached to Hiroshima University, 2008 Educational Research Meeting, Creation of School Education to Nurture Students with Rich 'Human Power' (3), "Case Study of Team Assistance in Schools
  • Seminar at Hiroshima University, "How much lengthening of sounds do people perceive as elongating stuttering?
  • Otake City Board of Education, Hiroshima Prefecture, Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop, "The Current Situation of Children with Speech and Hearing Delays and How to Support Them: Focusing on Students who Stutter

2007 Academic Year

  • Hiroshima Prefectural Center for Education, 2007 "Medical consultation in special support education consultation" project, "Assessment and guidance for children with developmental disabilities who show difficulties in learning
  • Hiroshima Speech-Language-Hearing Association Workshop, "Current Status and Issues of Diagnosis and Teaching of Stuttering in the United States: From Clinical Experience in Public Schools in Colorado
  • Otake City Board of Education, Otake City Classroom Guidance Class (Language) Classroom Review Committee Workshop, "Understanding and Supporting Children with Speech and Hearing Delays," Hiroshima Prefecture
  • Stuttering Workshop in Hiroshima, "Clinical Practice of Mid-term Stuttering

Others

  • The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Nippon Foundation sponsored the Postsecondary Education Network International, 2008 Summer Led Japanese delegation of university students, interpreted between Japanese and English in the host city (East Sussex, England), and gave a lecture on communication disorders at the Postsecondary Education Network International, 2008 Summer Leadership Institute organized by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Nippon Foundation.
  • Participated in the Kure Branch of Hiroshima Prefectural Minami Special Needs School's 2008 Project for Improving Classes (a project funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) as an instructor and lecturer (four times in total).
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