Abstract
To define needs appropriately is a fundamental practicing problem in a lot of areas about " the care ". This article deals with the difficulty of the definition of the intellectual disabled person's needs by the swimming instructor who isn't based on the professionalism and the intimacy for the considering. Instructors are classified into the category, "the able-bodied person". Then, the understanding of the needs of the intellectual disabled person is done only from the side of the non-disabled person. This applies to all of the relationship of the disabled person and the able-bodied person. This paper considers how the instructors define the expression of "definition of the intellectual disabled person's needs" which the parents tell as "resources". The used research method is the interview. The following two are found from the result of analysis of the interviews.
First is that "definition of the intellectual disabled person' s needs" by the parents is placed as "the resources" which organize the swimming instruction. Second is that it becomes the opportunity which can mean relationship with the disabled person with the re-assigned-position. In the conclusion part, the social process that the relationship of the instructor and the intellectual disabled person changes into the care relation via the instructional relation is argued. Finally, it shows the difficulty and the possibility of the disabled person swimming instructors in the instruction and is trying the showing of the possibility to approach the intellectual disabled person from the viewpoint of "the able-bodied person" which isn't based on the professionalism and the intimacy than above result of analysis.
