Change of Career Guidance at the Tokyo Metropolitan Komei Special School

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the change of career guidance at the Tokyo Metropolitan Komei special school, which provides special education to the physically disabled. Focusing on the change of state of the course after graduation and the condition of the student, the study examined the effect of change of career guidance on the curriculum. With regard to the condition of the student, the rate of occurrence of cerebral palsy gradually decreased among students, but the rate of occurrence of cerebral diseases aside cerebral palsy increased instead. As a result, the rate of occurrence of cerebral diseases still remains high among these students. With regard to the state of the course after graduation, the rate of entering high schools and employment decreased markedly among these students. In contrast, the rate of staying in and visiting social welfare facilities increased rapidly among these students. Severe and multiple disabilities come to the surface. By such a change in the condition of the student, career guidance offered to these students changed from aiming to enter high school and get a job to aiming to take up various courses suited to the condition of the individual student.