The difficulty of the student volunteer who participates in developmental disorder child volunteer

―For Consideration of support measures for student volunteers―

Abstract

　　This study is the first report of basic research to support the volunteer students who work with the children with developmental disabilities. It is found, to work with the children with developmental disabilities, these volunteer students have the difficulties. To solve the difficulties, the following three points were considered to be important measures. First, sharing informations among volunteer members, secondly, the increase of knowledge concerning developmental disorders, and finally, handover of the skills of activities. Also, it was found that senior students are getting difficult to gain a sense of accomplishment because of the increase of responsibility in their volunteer activities, and also feeling the difficulties strongly. Furthermore, the existence of situation was implied that senior students could not feel receiving the supports from other members. As the future tasks, through interviews, further detailed measures to be explored to cope with existing difficulties.