Annual Report 2013
The Ministry of Health and Welfare informed what the Ministry did
in response. They include: establishing legal basis for the support of
adult guardianship for wards with development disorder by way of the
bill on the protection of the rights and support of people with
development disorder and considering the enactment of the statute on
(temporarily named) the Protection and Support of Person of the
Wards; demonstrational operation of the project nurturing guardians of
adults and the central support group; revision of the Welfare of the
Aged Act and the Mental Health Act with regard to the consent of the
ward in case of invasive medical treatment and segregation for
treatment purposes.
G. Recommendation on Providing Convenience for the Fully Blind
during Paralegal Qualifications Test
The judicial examination administered by the Ministry of Justice has
provided additional support for the fully blind applicants since 2006.
They include: a separate testing place, longer testing time, braille test
and answer papers, and assistance support for answering the questions.
In the case of civil service examinations administered in 2013 by the
Ministry
of
Security
and
Public
Administration,
applicants
with
first-degree or second-degree visual disorder were granted the testing
time as 1.7 times longer, use of braille test and answer papers, and
provision of computers with voice recognition.
On the other hand, in the case of the paralegal examination administered
by the Supreme Court, fully blind applicants were not given any exceptional
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II. Major Activities of the Commission