As campuses shut and an increasing number of schools offer classes via the internet amid the coronavirus epidemic, a team of university professors has launched a website called ‘Accessible Online Lectures for Students with Visual Impairments’ to support online teaching for students with visual impairments.
The spread of the new coronavirus has brought about great changes in the working environment for people with intellectual disabilities who work in welfare work areas. While there are some people with disabilities who have seen a drastic decrease in work orders and are forced to work at home without assistance staff, there are also people with disabilities who work hard to contribute to the local community by making masks.
“As hearing-impaired individuals and their interpreters express and comprehend meanings through facial expressions as well as movements of the hands and mouth, masks covering most of the face make communication difficult.”
With the spread of the new coronavirus and the shortage ventilators and specialized hospital beds, people with disabilities are increasingly wary of “selecting lives.”
Increased calls for staying at home to prevent the spread of the virus has seen older people reduce both physical activity and interactions with friends, neighbors and others, raising the risk of falling into a state of physical or mental frailty.
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, Ureshino City has recently distributed cloth masks to people with disabilities living in the city. The city distributed disposable masks from the city’s stockpiles in early April, but since the infection control measures have been prolonged, a new response was made
The World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan have been rescheduled to 26 August-4 September 2022. The Kobe World Championships were initially scheduled for 17-26 September 2021 but have been shifted to 2022 to avoid a clash with the Paralympics.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that he will make a decision Monday on an extension of the state of emergency his government declared in early April over the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
According to Toyama city, one of the people infeced is a male teenager who uses a facility for the disabled. The other is a female nurse in her 20s working at Toyama Municipal Hospital where a cluster of COVID-19 cases has been found.
Written with extracts translated from NHK & NHK World April 28 2020 A study by the Ministry of Health, LaborContinue Reading
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