Abstract
In this report the writer tried to examine that how blind children were to enter the elementary schools under the present educational systems in Japan. The first case is 6-year-old boy, finished a private kindergarten and entered a public elementary school. The second case is 6-year-old girl, finished kindergarten part of a public elementary school. The second case is 6-year-old girl, finished kindergarten part of a public school for blind, and entered a private elementary school. The third case is 11-year-old girl, was a pupil of elementary school part of a public school for blind, and moved to a public elementary school. The fourth case is 6-year-old girl, finished kindergarten part of a public school for blind, and entered elementary school part in the same school. Three of them are to tally blind and the boy of the first case has handicapped condition of 0.01 in visual acuity. The writer considers the conditions to promote integrated plan of children who are blind as follows. (1) To apply more useful conditions as follows under the present restrictive circumstances. For examples (1) To be short distance between schools and homes of children to gain friendship. (2) To be under 40 pupils in a class. (3) To be successful in school management with some special classes for handicapped children in it. (4) To be desirable community in flexibility and positiveness of attitude in the board of education. (5) To be in the schools where are some teachers who have some teaching in the school for blind.(6) To be easy to gain some supports from research institute, child guidance clinic, or schools for blind. (2) To improve laws and systems about the standard of educational treatment of blind children. (3) To expand functions in public child guidance clinic with advice or counselling. (4) To improve conciousness of teachers in regular classes to be acceptable against handicapped children. (5) To try educational approaches possitively in the board of education.
