However, it did no result in a total retreat of the rehabilitation work which had been demonstrated by the great pioneer, and the program for the physically handicapped children was incorporated into the Child Welfare Law, which was inaugurated soon after the end of the war. Ever since, this institution has been put under reconstruction work by the national government, and its operation is assigned to the Japanese Society for Disabled Children. Now it has about 130 beds for long term care for them. Thus this institution is run on a semi-governmental basis as a rehabilitation center. Now in Japan there are about 70 centers for the physically handicapped and about 130 institutes for the severely handicapped supported by each local government.
Any handicapped child is able to accept our services.
Formerly they are limited to physically handicapped only, such as poliomyelitis, scoliosis,CDH, several bone and joint diseases and limited cases of cerebral palsy. But recently according to magnificient improvement of medical care level, many diseases were disappeared or markedly decreased like poliomyelitis. Instead of these groups the need of care for various kinds of the brain damaged are increasing. Besides motor handicap they have a lot of handicapps such as mental, psychological, verbal, visual, auditorial or feeding problems. Therefore now we are providing a lot of service menu for them.