Purpose
The Totto Foundation, a social welfare corporation, seeks to assist all those who require special guidance, protection, or correction facilituies, to live full lives as members of society, without in any way impairing their independence. The following social welfare activityies are dedicated to that end.
1. Establishment and management of the Totto Cultural Institute, a vocational institute for the handicapped. - - Occupational training for the deaf to foster self-reliance. - - To be inaugurated in 1987
2. Guidance Centers for the Handicapped
Staff membets will offer guidance to the handicapped as requested, inorder to Assist them in attaining self-reliance and social rehabilitation.
3. Management of Affairs Relating to Japanese Theater of the Deaf (1) Administration of Japanese Theater of the Deaf (J.T.D.) The goals of J.T.D. are in increase in autonomous activities on the part of the deaf, and the creation of dramas based on their point of view. By seeking to produce plays which can be enjoyed by all, handicapped or not, and which produce plays which can be enjoyed by all, handicapped or not, and which take as their starting point an inability to hear, it is hoped that many deaf people will gain interest in drama, and that the role and necessity of drama in deaf education may be more widely appreciated. Along with the training of deaf actors various other drama-related training is carried on, and performances are held several times a year to show off the results of this training.
(2)Sign-language Classes Classes in sin language are held to train volunteer workers, and to provide coordinated education for those with normal hearing and those with hearing disabilities.
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