The purpose of this study is to indicate the roles of schools for special needs education as a shelter in earthquake and the issues of environment management for people who need special support. The research targets are two prefectural schools for special needs education and one municipal mainstream school all of which were used as shelters in the Kumamoto earthquake, 2016. We analyzed the common and individual features of the three schools in the process of management of the shelters, the situation of acceptance of the evacuees, the way of using school facilities as a shelter, the needs and supply of special support, the issues of shelter management and so on.

In emergency broadcastings on disasters, persons with neuropsychological impairments may hear sounds but cannot recognize them in their brain. In order to ascertain its actual condition, hearing experiments were conducted on four groups with neuropsychological impairments. Thirty-two persons with impairments and 20 persons with non-impairments participated in the experiment. As for the question, I asked which one is easier to understand in the case of (1) "reading without intonation" and "reading with emphasis on intonation," (2) "reading without intonation" and "reading without intonation" adding a specific chime, and (3) "reading without intonation" and "singing." For (1), the majority of all subjects could understand "reading with emphasis on intonation" announced by females. For (2), the persons with impairments were unable to recognize the chime. For (3), majority of all subjects answered as "songs" being easier to understand. In the future, we will need to consider alternate announcements with male and female speakers in the emergency broadcasting for disasters, and we need to consider new alarms, because we cannot get the attention of those with the impairments using the current chime.