The purpose of vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities is to provide them with income and strong attachment to the society through suitable jobs according for their abilities. The vocational rehabilitation service ultimately provides t...
The purpose of vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities is to provide them with income and strong attachment to the society through suitable jobs according for their abilities. The vocational rehabilitation service ultimately provides the disabled with the ways to accomplish their own goals and be integrated into the society. However, there are few people who have jobs and live stable lives in Korea and most of the disabled employed have 3D jobs and have difficulties to go through the work-life.
The people with visual impairment have more difficulties than people with other disabilities since they can not see. Therefore, they are in a more disadvantageous position and need to have more active plan for the variety of vocational education specially for the people who do not have a good academic background or have had the acquired visual impairment.
To meet the needs mentioned above, 102 people with visual impairment in Dae-gu have been surveyed in the areas of awareness on vocational rehabilitation service, state and wishes of employment for people with visual impairment. Based on the survey, the right approach of vocational rehabilitation for people with visual impairment is presented in this study.
This study shows that the vocational rehabilitation service has been a great help for the independent living of people with visual impairment, but there have not been enough facilities for the rehabilitation service of people with visual impairment. The level of job-wishes of people with visual impairment who have work experiences is high but the facilities and the duration for the rehabilitation service are not enough.
In order to activate the vocational rehabilitation of people with visual impairment, the development of vocational rehabilitation program suited to people with visual impairment and the expansion of various job fields are required. In order to improve the state of employment for people with visual impairment, the expansion of the network service between society and relative agencies is required.
In order to achieve the goal, Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disable(KEPAD) needs to set up and expand a exclusive organization only for the vocational rehabilitation of people with visual impairment. KEPAD also needs to develop a vocational rehabilitation program which finds out suitable jobs for people with visual impairment through the network among rehabilitation service centers, and to activate the vocational rehabilitation of people with visual impairment by providing proper support including financial support.