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Nationwide Support Center for Students with Disabilities

We publish a book. That's University and College Guidebook for Students with Disabilities in JAPAN.

President : Tsubasa TONOOKA

Office address
Denen Ko-po Room 3, 3-14-22 Kamitsuruma-honcho, Sagamihara-city, Kanagawa 228-0818 JAPAN
International Phone / Fax (+81)42-746-7719
Domestic (in Japan) Phone / Fax 042-746-7719

Contact us : E-mail info@nscsd.jp

Nationwide Support Center for Students with Disabilities (NSCSD)

"We support students with disabilities in a new era"

Please image to yourself: students taking entrance exams in braille or attending lectures with sign language interpreters or a doctor on an electric wheelchair.
In Japan, about 3,000 students with disabilities take entrance exams and 500 are accepted to universities and colleges, every year.
Unfortunately, not every universities and colleges welcome students with disabilities. There still remain some that reject applications on ground of disabilities.
Nationwide Support Center for Students with Disabilities was found in 1999 with the aims to give accurate and necessary information of universities and colleges based on the result of questionnaires and to answer the needs of students with disabilities.
April, 2002

Nationwide Support Center for Students with Disabilities (NSCSD)
President, Tsubasa Tonooka

Counseling Services
"Accepted by a university I've longed for, but ..."
"I heard there are students with disabilities on campus, ..."

NSCSD provides information on entrance exams, campus life, or supporting services available on request.
Following staff members with similar disabilities wait for you:
Tsubasa Tonooka: Physical disability
Shinko Nishimura: Visual disability

Counseling is available by phone, fax or meeting in face to face. Reservation is necessary. Please contact us beforehand by phone, fax or e-mail.
Fees: \1,000/hour
* No charge for a member.

Information Services
"What kind of support services are available from the university I'm going to apply?"
"How about other universities?"

We offer information on accepting conditions and/or campus facilities of each university or college in inquiry.

     Fees:
     Basic charge: 500 yen
     Reference charge: 100 yen / item, 50 yen / one university
     * No charge for a member.
*Using database based on Universities and Colleges Guidebook for Students with Disabilities in Japan, we compile a list of universities or colleges about applications and acceptance conditions, campus facilities, or supporting services, to meet your personal request.

We carry out questionnaires to all universities and colleges in Japan and publish Universities and Colleges Guidebook for Students with Disabilities in Japan, annually.


Memberships
There are 3 different memberships:

User Member
Those who want to use counseling and information services/
    Annual fee: 3,000 yen

Supporting member and Subscribing member can register as a user member for free.

Supporting member
Those who support the activities of NSCSD financially
    Annual fee: 3,000 yen

Subscribing member
    Annual fee: 2,000 yen

Subscribe our journal Current News and Information's for People with Disabilities, published four times a year.

To become a member, please fill in the application form and send it to NSCSD

National Links:

Turkey: TIU.ORG.TR - Towards Inclusive Universities
USA: National Disabled Students Union NDSU

Office hours: 10:00~17:00
Closed on Sun. Mon. and national holidays (If Mon. is a national holiday, following Tue. is closed also).

If you have any questions regarding counseling, appointment, access to the Center, etc. please feel free to contact us.

Nationwide Support Center for Students with Disabilities
    Denen Ko-po Room 3, 3-14-22 Kamitsuruma-honcho, Sagamihara-city, Kanagawa 228-0818 JAPAN
        Tel/Fax: 042-746-7719
        E-mail: info@nscsd.jp
        URL: http://www.nscsd.jp/