Who are we? 

In 2016, the Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities became Japanese law. This change mandates that teachers and teaching organizations are aware of and use accessibility pedagogies, materials, and strategies to optimize educational outcomes for learners with special needs including psychological, physical, cognitive, and communicative disabilities and learning differences. As learner needs are diverse and vary by context, there isn’t an “one-size-fits-all” pedagogy. Therefore, there is growing needs of a forum for accessible language teaching and learning.

The purpose of the ALL SIG is to improve educational equity by providing a focus for current and future members for collaboration, sharing of experiences, practices, theoretical perspectives, and research to target compliance with the EDPD Act.

The ALL SIG community offers insights to teachers, researchers, and students regarding contemporary best practice and practice-oriented theory such as increasing awareness among teachers, and school administrators on accessible design in materials and methods.

SIG Officers