For more than 2 years I have written this blog about my son, who is now 16 years old with autism. I think the Sunny village educational system ( This is not the official translation but my own translation, that is directly translated from its Japanese name “Hikari no mura".) is very rare one in the world for autism.
As far as I know, the education or training for autism is now mainly “supporting them or being supported”, especially at the public institutes in Japan. We Japanese have been used to import cultures or systems etc. from foreign countries, directly as the results, not through try and errors, which means we tend to lack in understanding its histories or its back grounds. Therefore I feel the normal education for autistic childen here in Japan seems only that the institutes only scare making problems or getting filed suit by their families. It means they seem to escape or avoid challenging in autistic education. We would not need an experience of being educated, but the real educational results, especially for their own lives.
On the contrary, the Sunny village system is invented as the counterpart now by Mr.Nishitani, who started it even before the Japanese public autistic education was not built, when all of the autistic childen could not get any educations, only kept in their homes through their whole life 40 years ago.
My son has been educated at the Sunny Village junior high school for 3 years, who has got very muscular man like a horse that runs on hills swiftly.
I think that autistic people tend to be kept as they are, because they cannot do anything like the others. We have learned that they should be helped. But as one of their parents I would like to say that they also have some abilities to be raised or much trained, not to be pampered or kept alone. Otherwise they would be left alone on the dessert-like no-body world, who only seek helps from the others, who are already very busy with their own lives.
Living, working, exercises are the 3 main columns of its education. I hear that China has asked the school to introduce its special education for Chinese autistic people. But I feel very sorry that it is limited only in Japan, or moreover it is very rare one even in Japan although public autistic education does not seem very successful, which consumes more than 4 times as much budget than the one given to the Sunny Village.
I would like to introduce its education overseas from Japan as a parent, who asked it to educate my autistic child, in spite of my poor English, because billions of autistic people must exist in the world, who are not contented well with the present situation. I would also like to try to analyze it from a clinical medical doctor's point of view, which is often different from teachers' equal and effort-demanding and non-efffect-expecting view.
As far as I know, the education or training for autism is now mainly “supporting them or being supported”, especially at the public institutes in Japan. We Japanese have been used to import cultures or systems etc. from foreign countries, directly as the results, not through try and errors, which means we tend to lack in understanding its histories or its back grounds. Therefore I feel the normal education for autistic childen here in Japan seems only that the institutes only scare making problems or getting filed suit by their families. It means they seem to escape or avoid challenging in autistic education. We would not need an experience of being educated, but the real educational results, especially for their own lives.
On the contrary, the Sunny village system is invented as the counterpart now by Mr.Nishitani, who started it even before the Japanese public autistic education was not built, when all of the autistic childen could not get any educations, only kept in their homes through their whole life 40 years ago.
My son has been educated at the Sunny Village junior high school for 3 years, who has got very muscular man like a horse that runs on hills swiftly.
I think that autistic people tend to be kept as they are, because they cannot do anything like the others. We have learned that they should be helped. But as one of their parents I would like to say that they also have some abilities to be raised or much trained, not to be pampered or kept alone. Otherwise they would be left alone on the dessert-like no-body world, who only seek helps from the others, who are already very busy with their own lives.
Living, working, exercises are the 3 main columns of its education. I hear that China has asked the school to introduce its special education for Chinese autistic people. But I feel very sorry that it is limited only in Japan, or moreover it is very rare one even in Japan although public autistic education does not seem very successful, which consumes more than 4 times as much budget than the one given to the Sunny Village.
I would like to introduce its education overseas from Japan as a parent, who asked it to educate my autistic child, in spite of my poor English, because billions of autistic people must exist in the world, who are not contented well with the present situation. I would also like to try to analyze it from a clinical medical doctor's point of view, which is often different from teachers' equal and effort-demanding and non-efffect-expecting view.
