Center for Promoting Education for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Exhibition Room
The Center for Promoting Education for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Exhibition Room contains panel exhibits pertaining to basic understanding, response, and support for developmental disabilities and introduces educational materials, assistive tools, reference books, etc. with an aim to promote understanding of and proper response to developmental disabilities and to enhance support. There is also a section where visitors can experience and learn about the characteristics of developmental disabilities.
i-Library – An Exhibition Room Featuring Educational Support Devices and Other Educational Materials
i-Library is an exhibition room displaying various kinds of educational assistive devices, materials and software products that meet the educational needs of individual children with disabilities.
i-Library provides information mainly on commercially available products that can be used in schools, in an easy-to-understand manner using explanatory panels and the like in a section for each disability category.
Library
NISE Library collects, sorts and houses books and materials concerning special needs education as the national center for special needs education. NISE Library also provides services for browsing books and materials, reference and copying.
NISE Library holds around 80,000 books primarily on special needs education and around 2,000 kinds of journals and serial publications. In addition, NISE Library collects around 20,000 materials such as research results and practice reports developed by schools, boards of education and related institutions and organizations in Japan. A catalog of these collections is available on the Internet.
Special Collections
| Name | Contents |
|---|---|
| Trainee’s Reports | Participants taking teacher training programs offered by NISE submit trainee’s reports upon completion, and NISE binds and preserves these reports, which have been archived since the founding of NISE. |
| Publications of Organizations Involved with Special Needs Education | NISE widely collects and preserves publications that are not commercially available, such as research results and practice reports developed by schools, boards of education and related institutions and organizations in Japan. |
| Tsujimura Collection | Among the collection previously owned by the late TSUJIMURA Yasuo, the first director of NISE, approximately 500 books and materials concerning special needs education were donated by his family. These donated books and materials are separately held in the library. |
Open Day
Visitors can tour the NISE’s facilities for disseminating information.
Research results and other information are presented through experience-based exhibits.
Venue: National Institute of Special Needs Education
(Yokosuka City, Kanagawa)
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