Department of Rehabilitation for Sensory Functions

Purpose of the Department

1. Development and scientific verification of objective and quantitative evaluation methodologies for debilitating sensory system impairments, visual, auditory, and somatosensory.
2. Development and evaluation of treatment and rehabilitation methods of sensory system impairments.
3. Development and evaluation of compensatory and alternatively augmentative instruments and usage training thereof for the sensory system impairments.
4. Research and objective analysis of social needs and technological seeds of the above.

Research Staff

Research Link

Nationwide survey
"On the status of speech training for children with cochlear implants and development of a method of hearing and speech training".

Former Research Members

TAUCHI Masaki (Okayama Prefectural Univ., Faculty of Health and Welfare Sciences)
YONEMOTO Kiyoshi (Facutly of Social Welfare, Iwate Prefectural Univ.)
MINAMI Yuukichirou (Juntendo Univ.)
LI Rui (The University of Tokyo, School of Medicine)
HIRATA Naoki (GE Yokogawa Medical Systems Inc.)
FURUYA Izumi (Dpt. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hiroshima Preferectual College of Health Sciences)
IIJIMA Mutsumi (Tokyo Women's Medical University)
HAYASHI Ryoko (Division of Linguistics, Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Kobe Univ.)
FUKUSHIMA Yasuhiro (Dpt. of Intelligent Information-Systems, College of Engineering, Tamagawa Univ.)
ARAMAKI Yu (Computational Neuroscience Project, Biological ICT Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT))
CHITOSE Kazuyoshi (Graduage School of Education, The University of Tokyo)
KOIZUMI Toshizo (Dpt. of Otorhinolaryngology, Nara Medical Univ.)
MINAGAWA-KAWAI Yasuyo (Dpt. of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Keio Univ., JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency))
TANAKA Akihiro (Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Department of Medical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Tilburg University)
SAGAWA Yasuhiro (OMRON Healthcare Co., Ltd.)
MIYAZAKI Makoto (Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda Univ.)
SATO Yutaka (Laboratory for Language Development RIKEN Brain Sceinece Institute)
TAKEDA Kotaro (Center for Clinical Medicine and Research, International University of Health and Welfare)
KOHNO Yutaka (Division of Neurology, Ibaraki Perfectural University of Health Sciences Hospital)
NISHITANI Nobuyuki (Dpt. Neurology, Kyoto Univ.; Fujita Neurological Clinic)
MIZOKAMI-SAKAI Naomi (Dpt. of Speech, Language and Hearing Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Mejiro University)
SHIMOTOMAI Takayuki (Dpt. of Informatics, School of Science & Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
KADOTA Hiroshi (Dpt. of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo)
SEKIGUCHI Hirofumi (Department of Sport Management, Jobu University)
MASUDA Sayako (COE: Toward an Integrated Methodology for the Study of the Mind, Keio University)
SAKIHARA Kotoe (Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda University)
KAMATANI Daiki (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University)
TAKEUCHI Shigeki(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University)