Leaflets are available at resident offices (excluding Nerima), libraries (excluding Minami-Oizumi library annex), ward resident information plaza (ward office west office building 10th floor), Persons with Disabilities Policy Promotion Division (same floor 1st floor), general welfare office , Health Counseling Centers, Community Life Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities, etc.

• In addition to sign language and text displays for people with hearing disabilities, Braille for people with visual disabilities, communication such as diagrams, photographs, communication boards, etc. for people with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, severe mental and physical disabilities, aphasia, and intractable diseases. We will take a wide range of means and enhance them. Information support devices such as smartphones and tablets will also be used as a means of helping people with disabilities communicate, and will expand the range of communication.
• Disseminate that sign language is an important "language" for deaf people, combining finger and body movements, facial expressions, etc.
• We will work together with citizens and businesses to facilitate smooth communication for people with disabilities in communities and shops.

About the regulations draft, during period from Monday, February 14, 2022 to Monday, March 14, 2022, we performed opinion offer by ward resident opinion reflection system.
Based on the opinion that "sign language" should be included in the name of the ordinance, we added "sign language" based on the opinion to express the content more clearly. ordinance on the dissemination of In response to requests for additional means of communication, such as "tactile sign language," "finger braille," "gestures," and "communication boards," examples were added to the definition of "various means of communication."

Opinions, the ward's way of thinking, and the full text of the ordinance can be viewed at the Citizen Information Hiroba (Ward Office West Building 10th floor), Persons with Disabilities Policy Promotion Division (1st floor), and Community Life Support Center for Persons with Disabilities.

Hearings from organizations for persons with disabilities, the Regional Self-Reliance Support Council for Persons with Disabilities, and (provisional name) communication ordinance review committee will conduct deliberations, and the content of necessary measures and ordinances will be discussed. We have proceeded with the consideration with some people.

In March 2021, the Nerima Ward Regional Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities started deliberations.

From April to June 2021, interviews with disabled groups (16 groups)

From August to October 2021 (provisional name), the communication ordinance review committee will consider the contents and related projects that should be included in the ordinance

November 2021 Submission of a statement of opinion from the Community Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities

(1) Nerima Ward Regional Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities This council was established to share issues related to the support system for persons with disabilities in the area and discuss system development.
It consists of academic experts, persons with disabilities and their families, welfare service providers for persons with disabilities, educators, and workers.

(2) (Tentative name) Communication Ordinance Examination Committee The “(Tentative name) Communication Ordinance Examination Committee” was established as a special committee of the Nerima Ward Community Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities.
We examined the contents and related projects that should be included in the ordinance and reported to the Nerima Ward Local Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities.

(3) Hearings from groups of persons with disabilities We asked for opinions from groups of persons with disabilities in the city in order to use them as a reference when considering the Local Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities.

(Tentative name) After deliberations by the Communication Ordinance Examination Committee, a written opinion on the contents and related projects that should be included in the ordinance was submitted by the Local Independence Support Council for Persons with Disabilities. In addition to incorporating the "importance of various means of communication" and "promotion of understanding and cooperation with efforts by citizens and business operators" into the ordinance, "efforts to utilize ICT" and "various means of communication" There is an opinion that it is necessary to select initiatives.

At the (provisional name) communication ordinance review committee, we examined the contents and related projects that should be included in the ordinance over a total of three times with people with hearing impairments, visual impairments, intellectual disabilities, higher brain dysfunction, etc. .

In order for people with intellectual disabilities to participate in the study group, we added ruby ​​and annotations to the wording, and created materials that made the expressions as simple as possible.

We asked for opinions from groups of persons with disabilities in the city with the aim of understanding various means of communication according to the characteristics of individual disabilities and the efforts that are needed.