Information of Education for the persons with Developmental Disabilities
The center conducts activities including collection and exchange of information, awareness campaigns, etc. inorder to further raise public awareness. It aims to provide support particularly to teachers and carers of persons
with developmental disabilities, and to promote and implement educational support to children with developmentaldisabilities.

■ Information Center of Education for the persons with Developmental Disabilities
On Aug 27th, 2008, a website (http://icedd.nise.go.jp/) was set up for the Information Center of Education for thepersons with Developmental Disabilities.
As shown on the diagram, the website is presented in cooperation with persons with developmental disabilities,guardians, teachers and other personnel, universities, academic societies, NPOs, and related groups, and collates
information centered on 7 functions.
● Provision of information on methods tounderstand and deal with persons withNew Information on
developmental disabilities.
Developmental● Preparation and distribution of lecture
Disabilities
contents on understanding, supporting
Understanding andand guiding children with developmental
Enlightenment Activities
Lectures for Teachers
associated withdisabilities.
useful for Training
Developmental Disabilities● D istribution of teaching materials andassistive technology to support thePersons with Developmental Disabilities,
education of children with developmental
Guardians, Boards of Education, Teachers,disabilities.
Support Information forNPOs, Schools, Related Organizations,● P rovision of information on research,Surveys and Research
Overseas Japanese Residents,
literature and seminars, etc. to suit each
Information on DevelopmentalUniversities, etc.
Overseas Japanese Schools,Disabilities
child with developmental disabilities.
Teachers and Related Persons● P rovision of information on national
policy, law, and projects relating todevelopmental disabilities.
Information on Teaching
Consultation Services● P rovision of information on overseas
Materials and Assistiveon Developmental
Japanese schools to domestic consultation
TechnologyDisabilities
agencies and overseas Japanese residents.

Our goal is to promote understanding and enlightenment to enable the public as a whole tounderstand persons with developmental disabilities, and together to form a normalized society.
The website design is easy to use, has a friendly structure, ensures maximum accessibility, and incorporates
suggestions from a user questionnaire.
We hope to gather a broad range of information on the education of children with developmental disabilities,
and construct a system which offers easy access, simple to understand, highly useful information, for all of Japan's
educational institutions. Our goal is a website where everyone related to the education of children with developmental
disabilities can access relevant informant, while simultaneously having as many individuals as possible acting as
information providers.
We further hope to provide information to a broad spectrum of users, supporting understanding amongst the wider
public, in cooperation with the Information of Developmental Disabilities Center established within the Ministry ofHealth, Labour and Welfare National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities.

Information Center of Education for the persons with Developmental Disabilities
http://icedd.nise.go.jp
National Institute of Special Needs Education