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Special Needs Education
Under the Basic Act on Education (2007) Japan has signed to provide equal opportunity in education including individuals with disabilities. Along with the Basic Act on Education, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was passed in 2007, and was ratified in 2014. These two acts promised that the national and local government would provide special needs education program with adequate accommodation according to their level of disability. The purpose of the Special Needs Education is to help individuals develop their potential under their capabilities in order to gain independence and to gain vocational training in special fields. Some schools accommodate students with disability under traditional school settings, but in certain cases, students are placed in independent schools specialized in special needs education program. This program supports students with visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical disability, emotional behavioral disorder, learning disabilities, speech-language impairment (communication disorder), health impairment and development delay.

Reforms
Children with disabilities, along with their parents, did not have a voice until in the 1990’s when special needs education for children started to receive public attention. Before then, children with disability were recognized as “slow learners” or “difficult to blend in”. However,in recent years, the Japanese government has been working to pass equal rights to children with disability and has initiated a joint education system has been promoted as public education as welfare. The intent in their joint education system was to bring awareness and integrate the special need program with the traditional school systems. The first reform was the introduction of a “Resource Room System” which was a supplemental special need program for students with disabilities attending traditional school settings. Further in 2006, a greater educational reform took place to promote the notion of “inclusive education” for the purpose to avoid isolation of students with disability with the rest of the mainstream society. The "inclusion education" reform of 2006 came into act due to an influence of three political factors; the international movement for school inclusion, the reform of welfare on people with disabilities, and a general reform of the education system in Japan.

What is missing in the current article? Education on students with Disabilities

(In the article of Disability in Japan, they have a brief summary of what Special Needs are, however, they cite that the main article is under "Education in Japan". Thus, I have added information with Education for students with Disabilities to serve as the main article referred by the Special Needs wikipedia page.