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■しかくTable of Contents

Foreword SAKAMOTO Norihito 5-9

Part I
Chapter 1 Higher Education and Employment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing People in Japan SAKAMOTO Norihito 14-30

Chapter 2 The Gap of Recognition between the Deaf and Students in Training Programs of Sign Language Interpreters KITABAYASHI Kaya 31-55

Chapter 3 The Mixture of Languages and the Move of Body: A Case of an Elementary School for Deaf in Kenya FURUKAWA Yuki 56-102

Chapter 4 Linguistic Justice and Cost Sharing Problem SAKAMOTO Norihito 103-117

Chapter 5 A Survey on Empirical Analysis of American Policies for People with Disabilities FUJII Mayu 118-142

Part II
Chapter 6 Speech Recognition Engines as Communication Tools for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People SAKAMOTO Norihito, SAKURAI Satoshi & KASHIMA Moeko 144-156

Addendum Difficulties of the Communication Support System Using Speech Recognition Engines SAKAMOTO Norihito 157-159

Chapter 7 Sign Language Interpretation Systems in Japan SAKAMOTO Norihito, SATO Hiroko & WATANABE Aiko 160-170

Addendum Toward an Improvement of Sign Language Interpretation System in Japan SAKAMOTO Norihito 171-178

Chapter 8 Economic Effects of Disability Discrimination Act SAKAMOTO Norihito 179-188

Part III
Chapter 9 Notetakers' Support and Inclusive Society MIYAKE Hatsuho 191-197

Chapter 10 On the Support for Hard of Hearing People TAKAOKA Tadashi 198-206

Chapter 11 A Proposal for Sign Language Interpretation System by the NRASLI (National Research Association for Sign-Language Interpretation) KONDO Koichi 207-216

Chapter 12 Issues on the Communication Support System for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities MATSUMOTO Masashi 217-222

Chapter 13 Panel Discussion KONDO Koichi, TAKAOKA Tadashi, Tateiwa Shin'ya, MATSUMOTO Masashi & MIYAKE Hatsuho 223-249

Postscript SAKAMOTO Norihito 250-254

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■しかくIntroduction of Editors

◆だいやまーくSAKAMOTO Norihito
Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Visiting Researcher, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University

◆だいやまーくSAKURAI Satoshi
Doctroal Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(DC2)