臺灣日本

立命館宇治高等学校

×San Hsin High School of Commerce and Home Economics

Ritsumeikan Uji Senior High School

Promoting Employability For IDD StudentsDiversity and Inclusion

Do you think that people with Intellectual Developmental Disorder have the ability to work?
There is a course for IDD people to study and get training at SanHsin high school and students thus SanHsin have opportunities to better understand IDD people. We
think, as a goal, it is important for IDD people to be able to live happily and work by themselves. Mutual understanding between us and IDD people is also important.
This idea is related to SDGs number 4, 8, and 10. We cooperated with Ritsumeikan Uji High School to make this plan and improve how IDD people can gain
employment in the future.

Definition of Intellectual
Developmental Disorder (IDD)

Questionnaire Survey

IQ is lower than 70
Have difficulty to adapt daily lives
Must be confirmed before age 18

IDD People’s Employment Situation
According to the Ministry of Labor, IDD people are aminority both Taiwan and Japan. The employment rate ofIDD people is lower than the national average. However,SanHsin High School in Taiwan realizes a high average

employment rate (77%). Why?
TaiwanJapanPopulation

23.5 million

126.5 million

Total number of IDD

100,896 (0.4%)

962,000 (1%)

Employment number of IDD

26,000 (25%)

98,000 (10%)

Same salary as normal people?

Do you identify IDDs by appearance? Do you think IDDs have employability?

We handed out questionnaires to 110 students in SanHsin High Schooland 394 students in Ritsumeikan Uji High school.
For the question “identify by appearance”, almost same number ofstudents from both schools answered yes.
For the question for employability, students from SanHsin tend to takethe situation of IDD’s employability seriously. This tendency is also
seen from the survey of ”same salary as normal people” and ”witheducational training, same function in society as normal people”.
Despite this, students from Ritsumeikan Uji tend to consider thissituation less critical because they have had few chances to understandthe difficulties for IDD to get employment.

With educational training,same function in society
as normal people

Learning Environment of IDD Students at SanHsin School (Taiwan)
Individual Educational Plan

Various Lessons

Chain Store Service

Workplace Training

Cooking

Automotive cleaning

Conclusion

Community Workstation of IDD Students (Japan)
Interview

Community Workstation

ACTION• We interviewed a teacher of special support education school, who
explained to us that when IDD students can’t get a job, they go to theworkstation.
• A few students can get a job just like normal people do, but many people
cannot, so they work at community workstation with special support. Healso explained that there is still little understanding for severe IDD people,
and it is important for society to have more understanding of them.
• An IDD worker at the community workstation said one of themost important things he learned is how to have a good relationship withpeople and professional knowledge at school, where he could gain a lot ofexperience and find his own interests.

SanHsin High School evaluates IDD
students by their personalities andcapabilities and provides instruction in arange of courses as well as practicallessons such as cooking, chain store
service ……etc.
In the second grade, they can experiencea real-world working environment.
In the third grade, they are considered tobe ready to work after graduation.

1

Even if people have the disabilities, they
can improve themselves with a better
quality of education.

2

To improve the employability of IDD
people, essential job training and more
understanding about them should berequired.

3

Make a document (leaflet) and a poster
about understanding IDD people andhave interactions with them at eachschool and workshops.

Let's take actions!

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