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TENBATA Daisuke May 10, 2012
Voiceless A, KA, SA, TA, NA: Unique Communication Method in the World, Seikatsu Shoin, 256p. ISBN-10:490369092X ISBN-13:978-4903690926 1800 yen + tax
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Since the day that the author became a person with disability at the age of 14, he has had quadruple disabilities including paralysis of the limbs, speech impairment, swallowing disturbance and visual disability, and has required 24-hour care assistance. When losing communication with outside, what types of methods did he obtain? From the day when he was in the balance between alive or dead to the present time when he enjoys his academic life as a graduate student...this book describes troublesome but enjoyable daily life of Daisuke who comes up with various ideas to enjoy his life.
■Table of Contents
Forward: Voiceless A, KA, SA, TA, NA──About My Disabilities
Knowing How to Care for Daisuke
Part I Conveying / Receiving / Living: My Daily Life
Chapter 1 Unique Communication Method in the World
1 Conveying
2 Shortcut Expression
3 Passive Communication
4 Lack of Instancy
5 "That Is not What I Mean!"
6 Conveying Conclusion First
7 Anticipatory Ability
8 English
9 Telephone
10 Reset Button
11 Hedgehog's Dilemma
12 Touching
13 Can We Understand Each Other When Seeing Eyes?
14 How to Write Sentences
Chapter 2 Eating / Moving / Playing: With Helpers
1 Buying Friends with Money: Between Friends and Helpers
2 Dining
3 Coming of Toilet Crusher!
4 Purchasing a 110 Yen Loaf of Bread with Credit Card?: Cash and Shopping
5 Transfer: Inquisitive Mind and Adventurous Spirit (But I Do not Go Out without a Sense of Security)
6 How to Access Information
7 Handover
8 Requests for Helpers
9 A Movie Worm
10 Concerts and Plays
11 Trip to Korea
12 Love Affair
Part II The Day I Became a Person with Disability: Return from the Balance between Alive or Dead and the Encounter of Changing My Destiny
Chapter 3 Return: 100 Days at ICU
1 The 'River Sanzu' (the 'Hades' of Japanese Myth)
2 Disturbance in the Body
3 Transportation to a Hospital
4 Coma
5 Coming Out of the Coma at ICU
6 Bedsores
Chapter 4 Medical Care: Becoming a "Person with Disability"
1 Life at a "General Ward"
2 Acquisition of Communication
3 Hospital School
4 Becoming a "Person with Disability"
Chapter 5 Changing Hospital
1 Life at a Rehabilitation Center
2 Staying Out
3 Kindergarten Children
4 Dining
5 Death Is Nearby
Chapter 6 Class and Career Options
1 Dissatisfaction
2 Encounter with Mr. Gucchi
3 Trusting People
4 Contact with the Outside World
5 Toward Entrance Examination of University
Part III I Cannot Stop Learning: University Life and Future Path
Chapter 7 Let Me Enter University: From Examination to Enrollment
1 Fellows of Guriko
2 Determination to Take Entrance Examination
3 First Three Years
4 Encounter with Japan Lutheran College and Seminary
5 Success on the Entrance Exam!
Chapter 8 University Life and Learning
1 University Life and Volunteer: From Daisuke's Volunteer to LSS
2 Study Methods
3 About Evaluation
4 Graduation Thesis
Chapter 9 The Beginning of a New Phase of Life: To the Graduate School of Ritsumeikan University
1 Encounter with Prof. FUKUSHIMA Satoshi
2 What I Would Like to Conduct Research on
3 Way to Ritsumeikan University
4 Toward Entrance Examination of the Graduate School
5 About My Future
6 Marriage
Epilogue
Afterword
Chronology: History of Daisuke
References
UP:September 11, 2012 REV:September 24, 2012 October 1, 2012
Translation by TAMURA Noriko
Proofread by
KATAOKA Minoru