Dr. Aya Oshika obtained her Ph.D. in 2010. She has been teaching in the Department of Special Education, Tokyo Gakugei University since 2020. Her research interests include education for Deaf or hard-of-hearing children, especially combined with LD, ADHD, and ASD, who do not have obvious mental retardation but need careful understanding and support in their education. In a previous study, a survey of schools for the Deaf throughout Japan showed that 33.7% of children and students showed significant developmental disabilities as a result of teacher checklists. She also provides ongoing support for them and examines effective ways to help them. Her recent publications include “Survey on Hearing Impaired Children with Developmental Disabilities in School for the Deaf since the Introduction of the Special Needs Education System: Trends in the Nationwide Surveys over the Past 10 Years”(in Hearing & Language Disorders,2019),” Toward the Establishment of a Long-Term Support System for Hearing-Impaired Children with Developmental Disabilities
-Interviews with the children and their parents after junior high school age”(in The Japanese Association of Special Education 58th Conference, 2020).