Regarding the expression “disabled' in kindergarten homepages

Regarding the expression “disabled' in kindergarten homepages

Internet is an important tool to collect and send information. Internet is also a tool to send information for kindel'gartens and many kindergal'tens have homepages and send out information. The purpose of this research is to find out how the expression “ disabled" is stated in kindergarten homepages. We studied 200 kindergarten homepages. We studied if there were expressions “disabled" Gncluding photographs and pictures) in these kindergal'ten homepages and, if there were the expressions, we studied in what kind ofpages the expl'essions appeal'ed. We used “Yahoo Japan" to search homepages. The keyword we used was “kindergarten" and we did full text search. Among 200 homepages, the number ofhomepages, which had expression regarding disability was 14(7%). When we classified the pages, which contained the term disability, application guidebook pages contained the word the most. The next was care plan/contents. When we see only this result, it seems like there very few kindergartens, which have inclusive education; however, it is not true. There are many kindergartens, which have inclusive education; however, they do not state it on their homepages. We assume that this is because, if they state that they have inclusive education, parents who want to enroll their children with disabilities rush to the kindergarten and they cannot deal with them.