On Building A Self-Determination Support System for Mentally Retarded Children and their Families using Welfare Services

我们研究了在家抚养弱智儿童或人的家庭面临的问题，现有的咨询机构，以及在家中维持生活的服务，以掌握他们的状况，并考虑一种支持系统，为智障儿童或人的个人选择和自我决定铺平道路。通过研究，我们可以感知家庭经历的情况和他们的需求。我们也可以看到，虽然这些家庭对孩子的未来感到模糊的焦虑，但他们没有空间收集和选择解决他们问题的系统和方法的信息，帮助他们使用服务的关键人物将是必不可少的。未来福利措施发生变化时，需要确定谁应该承担这一角色，需要哪些专业人员。我们发现，他们需要能够了解儿童状况并持续支持他们的专门机构。

We researched problems before families that nurture their mentally retarded children or people at home, the available counseling agencies, and services to maintain the living at home in order to grasp the state of them and consider a support system that would open the way for personal selection and self-determination of mentally retarded children or people.Through the research, we could perceive the situation that the families have experienced and their needs. We could also see that while the families feel vague anxiety about their children's future, they have no room for collecting and choosing information about systems and means to solve their problems, and that the key person who helps them to use services will be essential.It is necessary to determine who should assume this role and what expertise will be required when welfare measures change in the future.And we found that they required specialized agencies that could understand the condition of the Children and support them continuously.