[Children with disabilities, families with a disabled child and social policy]

In this article the author described three social movements by families with a disabled child: (1) respite services which refresh family members by a short-term relief care in a local region, (2) after-school activities in which children with disabilities participate in recreation activities and built up a friendship with non-disabled people in neighborhood, and (3) schooling of children with special health care which enables the children to attend unaccompanied by mothers until after-school hours. The author's analysis indicated that a social policy for the people with disabilities and their families should consider other dimensions which may be influenced by the social policy. This is because different social settings (e.g. home, school, family) are interdependent and that events and changes in one unit have an effect on other social settings.