The possibility of dental education against the handicap students

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13192
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Kanagawa Dental College
• Principal Investigator: SUGAYA Akira 神奈川歯科大学, 大学院歯学研究科, 教授 (30162853)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 障害者差別解消法 / 合理的配慮 / 歯科医学教育 / インクルーシブ教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We analyzed the questionnaire data obtained from (29) dentistry schools concerning the enrolment of handicapped students, the current aid resources, and future school policy development. We found that the number of handicapped dental students was 97 out of 15465 in total, accounting for under 0.1%. 23 dentistry schools accepted handicapped students in the past, 17 school are willing to accept the students in the future, and 12 schools have not accepted, and will not be able to, accept dental students with disabilities. And we made a trial production of the educational dental unit which is designed for lower extremity handicapped students. We confirmed this educational dental unit has shown positive effects on the technical development of dental students with disabilities. The finding implies that the cognitions of educational providers affect the way they accept handicapped students and that dentistry schools have the potential to accept a larger number of handicapped students.

Free Research Field

歯科医学教育学