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VI. General Policy Direction for Strategies in Each Field
Removing Psychological Barriers

Removing Psychological Barriers


Widening opportunities for exchange with persons with disabilities from childhood onwards and promoting exchanges and the like with persons with disabilities through volunteer and other activities. Also, increasing the understanding of the people regarding disabilities and persons with disabilities via active advancement of education and public relations through a variety of events and media. Also, a review of terminology and qualification systems with disqualifying items that exacerbate discrimination and prejudice against persons with disabilities.

1. Promoting Education to Deepen Understanding of Persons with Disabilities

  • The promotion of exchanges in education and similar measures between schools for persons with visual and hearing disabilities, other persons with disabilities, and elementary and junior high schools, and between special classes and other classes at elementary and junior high schools, and the promotion of volunteer education at schools, including social-service activities.

 

2. Promoting Volunteer Activity

  • The promotion of volunteer and other activities through measures such as the integration of volunteers, companies, private-sector groups, groups of persons with disabilities, labor unions and others into a comprehensive network to provide a rich resource of everyday life support for persons with disabilities.

  • The expansion of projects supporting volunteer activity and the development of base facilities.

 

3. Promoting Public Awareness and Public Relations Activities during Disabled Persons Week

  • The prioritized advancement of the implementation of PR campaigns in mass media such as television and newspapers, various types of events in conjunction with disabled groups, and other activities during Disabled Persons Week (3-9 December), in order to impart significance to Disabled Persons Day on 9 December.

 

4. Reviewing the Term "Seishin-hakujaku"

  • The conducting of a review of terminology in place of "seishin-hakujaku"(a Japanese expression of mental retardation) based on the opinions of parents groups and other relevant representatives.

 

5. Correcting Misunderstandings and Prejudice Against Persons with Mental Disabilities

  • The correction of misunderstandings and prejudice against persons with mental disabilities (which constitute a major impediment to areas such as enhancing the independence and employment of persons with disabilities in the community for their social rehabilitation) through measures such as education and dissemination of information among local communities and exchanges between facilities and local residents.

  • The review of the items disqualifying persons with mental disabilities contained in all systems of qualifications and similar systems.


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The Government Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities
— A SEVEN-YEAR NORMALIZATION STRATEGY —
Tentative Edition in English

Translated by
the Secretariat of the Headquarter
for Promoting the Welfare of Disabled Persons,
Prime Minister's Office

6-1, Nagatacho 1-chome,
Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, 100
JAPAN