"Keeping everyday-life" and "expanding capability"

Supporting the independentlife of the people with learning difficulties

Abstract

In the support for the independent life of the people with learning difficulties, the attendants meet so many problems. This article aimed to investigate what the problems are and how the attendants find themselves as "the attendants" . Because there are many difficulties in the communication, in order to understand what the people with learning difficulties want and need, the attendants must think about themselves how they suggest to, how they listen to, and how they behave in the communication. There are two main issues in the independent life, the one is "keeping everyday-life" ,and the other is "expanding capability" . Sometimes the collision between the two issues happens. Especially, when the conflicts occur with surrounding community, the attendants feel a serious collision between the two issues. In such cases, the attendants try to consider the conflicts with community as the chance to change neighbors to supporters. The attendants consider it "natura!" that everyone lives in community with various people, though they are the people with serious lealling disability or the seriously autistic.