How to Restart an Inclusive Camping While Preventing COVID-19 Outbreak Interdisciplinary Study on the Utilization of ICT Support System to Create Inclusive Outdoor Education to Enhance QOL for Persons with Disabilities
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Inclusive Camping, Assistive Technology, COVID-19, ICT, Disabilities
Abstract
Since March 2020, most camps for people with and without disabilities were canceled because of Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19). How to restart recreational activities, such as camping, is an important issue for both health and mental well-being. This essay addresses the efforts of Campwith to restart their camping activities for people with and without disabilities during the pandemic in October 2021.
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Yasuko Takeuchi, St. Andrew's Momoyama Gakuin University
Associate Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Sociology, St. Andrew’s Momoyama Gakuin University
Kiriko Takahashi, Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Dr. Kiriko Takahashi, Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), holds a Ph.D. in Education in Exceptionalities from UHM with emphasis on Assistive Technology, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and STEM. She has over 20 years of experience working with children, youth and adults with diverse abilities and cultural backgrounds. At CDS, she has led a number of STEM related research and demonstration projects to improve the STEM outcomes of underrepresented groups. She was the project coordinator and research facilitator for the NSF Pacific Alliance and Pathways to STEM projects to support students with disabilities transition through the critical junctures to obtain STEM degree and ultimately transition into STEM careers. Currently, she is also the Director of Pacific Basin University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and provides technical assistance to activities to improve the outcomes of people with disabilities in American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands.
Yuji Umenaga, Waseda University
Professor, Waseda University, Dr. Yuji Umenaga has worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for many years in Japan.