Regarding fees, etc.
Outpatient Consultation
For those who only seek advice and consultation on specific problems on an ad-hoc basis, rather than regular visits, I can only offer common causes and solutions. This is because I am not a fortune teller who can definitively state the best course of action, for someone whose characteristics I have never seen or whom I have just met for the first time.
Regarding out-of-pocket expenses
We are currently unable to offer fee reductions or exemptions for low-income households, based on the official income certificates for all members of the household. Furthermore, under the current system, our office has no plans to obtain medical fees from public institutions through "Disability Certificates", "Beneficiary Cards", or "Health Insurance".
There is absolutely no problem with using our services at your own expenses, addition to the public support mentioned above (e.g. child development support centers, after-school care rooms, child development support offices, after-school day services and other therapeutic facilities, home-based rehabilitation based on the health insurance system and long-term care insurance system, visits to hospital rehabilitation departments, etc.)
A small financial burden
If you would like to increase the number of therapy sessions beyond the existing public support limit, with no or minimal out-of-pocket expenses, the following routes A.- C. are possible. However, you must accept its traffical and time-managing inconveniences:
A. One way to participate is as a case study in a research institution's project. Depending on the research plan, you may receive compensation such as specialized and long-term support for your specific subject. Try searching CiNii Research or Ichushi Web using keywords related to yourself, and focus your search on institutions that have published papers that appear in the search results.
B. Even outside of research institutions, therapists working for municipal or private companies may be seeking research collaborators to write "case reports" or "original research papers" required for academic presentations or certification. Start from asking the therapists in the support center you have attended if they know any fellow therapists who are currently recruiting.
C. Some training schools for speech-language pathologists ( search for training schools | Japan Association of Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists ), occupational therapists, and psychologists have attached therapy rooms. If you are scouted to be a subject for in-school practical training sessions (to put it bluntly, a "practice subject" for aspiring therapists), you may even be offered a small token of appreciation.
Please continue to check the above regularly . I'm quietly wishing you good luck in finding a good opportunity.