1. Support for students with disabilities at Reitaku University

① History of supporting students with disabilities

At Reitaku University, after serving as a "Preparatory Office for the Support of Students with Disabilities," the "Support Office for Students with Disabilities" (now the "Academic Support and Counseling Office") was officially established in 2018. Based on the founding principles of the university, faculty, staff, and students work together to promote academic support for students with disabilities. To ensure that all students, regardless of whether they have a disability or not, have equal opportunities for educational and research activities and can make the most of their individual abilities, support is provided in cooperation with various external organizations as well as with relevant departments within the university, such as faculties, graduate schools, and student counseling offices.

　

② Role of the Student Support and Counseling Room

The Academic Support and Counseling Office provides consultations regarding academic matters, based on requests (expressions of intent) from students with disabilities. Through constructive dialogue, it coordinates collaboration and cooperation (consensus building) within and outside the university so that various departments and faculty members involved in academic affairs can provide direct and indirect support. In addition, it plays the following roles, including improving the response capabilities of faculty and staff and supporting the faculty and staff who provide support:

・Consultation and request for reasonable accommodations (support content)*
- Planning and managing training sessions and case study meetings for faculty and staff.
- Training and managing student supporters
- Creation, updating, and dissemination of guidelines for supporting students with disabilities.
- Summary and report of surveys on the actual situation of students with disabilities and examples of support provided.
*Reasonable accommodations will be decided upon and provided after sufficient agreement and mutual understanding have been reached through constructive dialogue between the student and the university (their department, counselors, and the academic support consultation office, etc.).

2. Regulations and guidelines for supporting students with disabilities

■ Reitaku University Regulations for Supporting Students with Disabilities

■ Reitaku University Guidelines for Supporting Students with Disabilities

3. Application procedures for academic support, flow of implementation, and decision-making

■ Application procedures and implementation process for academic support

■ Support system for students with disabilities and decision-making

■ Application documents

・ Reasonable Accommodation Application Form (PDF)
・ Reasonable Accommodation Application Form (Word)

If you are not a student of this university, please contact us via the "Contact Us" section of our university website below.
*For inquiries, please select "Support for students with disabilities" and enter other necessary information.
https://www.reitaku-u.ac.jp/info-contact/other/

4. Examples of support provided as reasonable accommodation

①Notifying and communicating requests for reasonable accommodation to relevant faculty and staff members
② Adjustments to take various exams (including entrance exams) in separate rooms, test times, answering methods, etc.
③Seating considerations during classes and events
④ Guarantee of information on class materials (permission to record and photograph notes on the board, distribution of materials online, etc.)
⑤Adjustment of deadlines for reports and assignments
⑥Provision of equipment and fixtures that take into consideration the characteristics and symptoms of disabilities
7) Rest and relaxation when feeling unwell (securing a place to rest and take a break)
⑧Other considerations regarding campus life
9. Collaboration with external institutions (medical institutions, employment support organizations, etc.)

*The above is an example, and we will consider the details through consultations with you after you apply for support, such as by listening to your requests for support. Even if the content of the support application is the same, the considerations and implementation details that can be provided may differ depending on the curriculum, classes, and grade evaluation criteria and methods of the faculty, department, and major.

5. Examples of cases where accommodation is unlikely to be recognized as reasonable accommodation

① It involves a fundamental change to the educational objectives or content of the university.
② Substantial changes to grading standards or undermining the guarantee of fair grading.
3) Changes in course content that may significantly impair the learning opportunities of other students
4) It imposes an excessive burden on the University in light of its current situation (personnel, organizational, financial, etc.).
⑤Things that are not related to or incidental to the university's core business

6. Student Supporter System

① Role
You will be responsible for providing support for classes and other activities to students who have signed an agreement for reasonable accommodation (including students who have submitted an application for reasonable accommodation), as well as handling tasks arising from requests from the Student Support and Counseling Office, on a paid or unpaid volunteer basis.
② Application
The Student Support and Counseling Office is seeking students who understand students with disabilities, can stand by their individual needs, and can act responsibly. If you are interested in helping others, want to interact with diverse people, or want to make effective use of your free time between classes, please feel free to contact the Student Support and Counseling Office (shugaku-support@ad.reitaku-u.ac.jp) if you have any questions.

7. Appeals

① Consultation service for those who feel they have been subjected to unfair and discriminatory treatment
If a student with a disability believes that they have been subjected to unfair and discriminatory treatment, or if they have complaints about the content of support, including reasonable accommodation, or the decision-making process for that support, the student may lodge a complaint at the office listed below and will make arrangements to resolve the dispute from a third-party perspective.

②Contact information for consultation desk
Yoshihiro Takemura, Attorney at Law (Kenichiro Kayaba Law Office)
TEL:03-5157-5665 FAX:03-5157-5667
Email:takemura@kayaba-law.net

8. Barrier-free status on campus (university zone)

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