What should Supervisors do for Students with Mental Disabilities as Reasonable Accommodation ?

TOKUTSU Akira

doi:10.15057/85112

The Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities（AEDPD） requires professors to endeavor to provide reasonable accommodation to eliminate social barriers against persons with disabilities provided the burden associated with the relevant implementation is not disproportionate（AEDPD arts 7 and 8）. Under the AEDPD, “disability” encompasses not just physical disability but also mental and developmental disabilities. Therefore, university faculty have to respond to students with mental disabilities. However, mental disabilities are so diverse that the university or the faculty cannot prepare a specific response. What should the faculty do for students with such mental deficits ? 　This paper analyzes this question. Generally speaking, even supervisors cannot get much information about students’ deficits. In addition, supervisors cannot respond to the mental deficits even if they hear the information first-hand from the students because mental deficits are so diverse. Therefore, it is beyond the reasonable accommodation as required by the Act to implement a specific strategy. All the supervisor can do is to give students some rest breaks. Waiting for students, therefore, is the reasonable accommodation based on the act. To permit supervisors to allow additional time for students, the universities and the higher education agency should relax regulations relating to the ratio of the graduations within the standard year of study for the students with mental disabilities.

What should Supervisors do for Students with Mental Disabilities as Reasonable Accommodation ?

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