Abstract
The present article surveys published studies on individual teaching plans for training for independent living (jiritsu katsudo), and proposes future research on individual teaching plans. When training for independent living was first added to the national curriculum for special schools for children with disabilities, studies were conducted that paid special attention to the significance and purpose of individual teaching plans, including awareness of their design and use and the processes involved, as well as studies on the design and use of teaching plans in elementary and junior high schools. In the future, research on the following issues is important in order to promote an inclusive educational system: (a) how special schools for children with disabilities should adapt training for independent living, (b) how individual teaching plans should be designed and used in elementary, junior, and senior high schools, and (c) how the system for designing and using individual teaching plans in elementary, junior, and senior high schools should be developed.
