Critical Aspects Of Individual's Capacity For Employment Are Parental support. A friendly and social personality and desire to work. IQ Scores, Test scores, and academic abilities are not necessarily important features of successfully employed persons with Mental Retardation. Vocational Training In The Mentally Challenged It involves 2 aspects:
1. Guidance to parents - It is of immense importance only if parents are willing to help the individual or only when parents are convinced, then only we can proceed in vocational training programme.
2. Guidance to mentally challenged persons.
What a parent can do to make their child enter some kind of vocation?
Become aware of your child's eventual need to enter in to the world of work.Emphasize Physical fitness, stamina & personal appearance. Be sure that the child's current program addresses employment awareness. Expose your child to work situation ,when you go out in the community. Give your child specific responsibilities in and around the house. Encourage school teachers to include work related concepts such as money, employer and employee relationships.
Aims of Vocational Guidance
Assist the client towards a proper choice of vocation.
To enable the client to find the general and specific abilities required for the vocation.
To develop positive attitude towards various occupations.
To prepare the client for specific services which can be rendered to society.
To help the worker to adjust himself to the occupation in which he is engaged.
Assist the client towards a proper choice of vocation.
To enable the client to find the general and specific abilities required for the vocation.
To develop positive attitude towards various occupations.
To prepare the client for specific services which can be rendered to society.
To help the worker to adjust himself to the occupation in which he is engaged.
Various Kinds of Vocations
Peons, Messengers, Gardeners, Water boy, Call boy, Photocopying, Screen printing, Packing, Loading, Helping in baking, Sweepers, Book binding, Coir product making, Pickle production, Envelope making and many such more options.
Peons, Messengers, Gardeners, Water boy, Call boy, Photocopying, Screen printing, Packing, Loading, Helping in baking, Sweepers, Book binding, Coir product making, Pickle production, Envelope making and many such more options.
Jobs Options In Rural Areas
AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE- Planting, Sowing, Spraying, Harvesting, Storing, Basic processing of products, Keep working animals.
LIVE STOCK , POULTRY RELATED- Breeding, Raising, Tending live stock, Milking animals, Grazing, Collecting eggs.
SERICULTURE& FORESTRY- Breeding, Trimming trees, Sawing and Loading.
Vocational Training At Various Stages
Elementary Stage(For the development of work readiness skills)
Eye Hand Coordination.
Arrangement of materials.
A desire to do a better job.
A spirit of cooperative work.
Promoting dignity of labour.
Secondary Stage( For the development of abilities)
Helping the students to identify their abilities.
Giving necessary information about various jobs, skills, and opportunities.
Exposing them to various job situations.
Post School Stage
Helping to select courses.
Encourage to acquire skills.
Exposure to various jobs.
Selection of suitable vocation to start with.
Employment Models
AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE- Planting, Sowing, Spraying, Harvesting, Storing, Basic processing of products, Keep working animals.
LIVE STOCK , POULTRY RELATED- Breeding, Raising, Tending live stock, Milking animals, Grazing, Collecting eggs.
SERICULTURE& FORESTRY- Breeding, Trimming trees, Sawing and Loading.
Vocational Training At Various Stages
Elementary Stage(For the development of work readiness skills)
Eye Hand Coordination.
Arrangement of materials.
A desire to do a better job.
A spirit of cooperative work.
Promoting dignity of labour.
Secondary Stage( For the development of abilities)
Helping the students to identify their abilities.
Giving necessary information about various jobs, skills, and opportunities.
Exposing them to various job situations.
Post School Stage
Helping to select courses.
Encourage to acquire skills.
Exposure to various jobs.
Selection of suitable vocation to start with.
Employment Models
Inclusive Employment- Includes work in formal and informal sectors (no education requirements.
Competitive Employment- It is a kind of open employment. There exists 3 per cent of job reservations for persons with disabilities.
Supported Employment- It is an employment approach for individuals with mental retardation which enables them to be placed, trained and supported in competitive jobs in integrated environment with assistance of qualified persons.
Sheltered Employment Workshops- It provides non-competitive long-term employment to persons with mental retardation. It's uniqueness lies in its ability to provide them with an opportunity to make a useful contribution to society and their own well being through productive work.
Group Employment- It is a modified version of sheltered employment. It is organised by group of parents or adult services providing agencies.
Self employment-
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