1980 Volume 19 Pages 94-96,186
Various discussions regarding definitions and usages of the term learning disabilities have appeared in Japanese academic circle. Although Japanese culture is quite different from Occidental ones, learning disabilities do exist in Japan and treatments are required. Japanese pediatricians and child neurologists are now turning their attentions to this subject. Primary, psychologists and educators should be responsible for diagnoses and remadiations of children with learning disabilities. And already in U. S., these matters are institutionalized in educational systems. In Japan, however, children learning disability is left inbetween the normal classroom and the special education classroom. Considerations for these children being urgent, it is essential to take up these problems in Japanese psychological field. Also, researches in systematic treatments of learning disabilities are called for in schools.
