茨城大学
教育学部
准教授
Associate Professor
College of Education
Ibaraki University
2014年筑波大学大学院人間総合科学研究科博士後期課程修了．博士（障害科学）．同大学人間系の研究員，ダイバーシティ・アクセシビリティ・キャリアセンター助教を経て，2016年度より茨城大学教育学部に講師として着任し障害児生理学研究室を運営．2020年より現職．教育オーディオロジーや主に聴覚障害児を対象とした生理心理学的研究に従事．2022年から1年間，デンマーク工科大学客員研究員．2017年日本聴覚医学会研究奨励賞受賞．2018年茨城大学学長学術表彰受賞．
Kei Tabaru received his PhD in Disability Science from the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba 2014. After working as a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba, he served as a lecturer at the College of Education, Ibaraki University, in 2016. Since 2020, he has been in his current position. His research interests include educational audiology and psychophysiological research, mainly with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Since 2022, he worked as a guest researcher at the Technical University of Denmark for one year. He received the Incentive Award of the Japan Audiological Society in 2017 and the Incentive Award of Ibaraki University in 2018.
聴覚障害については「聞こえない障害」というイメージを持たれることが多いかと思います。確かに音を聞かずに手話で生活している「ろう者」と呼ばれる方もいらっしゃいますが。しかし，多くの人は聞こえづらい中で自身の聴覚を最大限に活用して生活しています。近年技術や医療の発展もあり，聴覚障害者の方の聞こえの能力が高まってきました。そういった状況の中で，病院で実施する聴覚検査では良い成績を示すものの，日常場面では様々な聞こえの困難さを有する事例が報告されています。世界的にみても，これらの困難さを的確に評価する方法が確立されていない現状です。そこで私はウェアラブルデバイスなどの技術も応用しながら，聴覚障害のある子どもが日常場面で抱える困難さを評価する手法を確立し，国内外の教育機関に広く普及させたいと考えています。
Generally speaking, people often think of hearing impairment as an "impairment that makes it impossible to hear. There are indeed people called "Deaf" who do not hear sounds and live using sign language. However, many people with hearing loss make the best use of their hearing. In recent years, thanks to technological and medical advances, the listening abilities of people with hearing loss have increased dramatically. However, some people still perform well in hospital-based listening assessments but have various listening difficulties in everyday situations. Even worldwide, there has yet to be an established method to assess these difficulties accurately. Therefore, I would like to develop a way to assess children with hearing loss difficulties in everyday situations, apply technologies such as wearable devices, and disseminate this method to educational institutions in Japan and abroad.
”ワクワク感”を他分野のスペシャリストと共有できる人物
A person who can always share his/her "excitement" with specialists in other fields.