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Over 180,000 students in Japan take special classes due to learning difficulties

A government survey has found more than 180,000 students in Japan took special lessons in the last academic year due to learning difficulties, while also belonging to an ordinary class.

The education ministry says 183,880 students at elementary and high schools across Japan took some lessons outside their homerooms in the year ending in March 2022. The number was up 12 percent from the previous academic year and the most ever.

Those students had difficulty in reading, writing or building relationships with others.

Of them, 47,175 had speech impediments, 38,656 had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and 36,760 had autism.

The education ministry attributes the increase to deepening understanding of developmental disorders by students themselves, their families and educators. It plans to further improve the program.

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230326_10/