著者

高原 光恵 津田 芳見

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, pp.94-99, 2012

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We examined the familiarity degree of the terms that concern the developmental disability in general public and also surveyed their source of information. The participants were 50 commoners, 4 females and 46 males. Many of them were age of 30s. In the questionnaire, there were 20 items including "developmental disability", "autism", "learning disability", "coordinator of special needs education" and so on. We requested participants to evaluate which level a familiarity degree in each word was. Excluding the two subjects' data because there were blanks, we analyzed 48 people's data. In the results, it was shown that most items concerning developmental disability were unfamiliar to general public. This result is different from other research conducted in teachers or welfare workers. It must be examined in other age groups to check whether this tendency is common. We concluded that it is necessary to improve the way of enlightenment for understanding developmental disability, not only for specialists but also for general public.