The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of mental retardation's life-centered career education program on the vocational adaptative skill in terms of the importance and necessities of vocational rehabilitation. Especially, the effect of p...
The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of mental retardation's life-centered career education program on the vocational adaptative skill in terms of the importance and necessities of vocational rehabilitation. Especially, the effect of program on daily-life function, socialization function, irrational behaviors, and working function was examined. Examination analysis was carried out before and after carrying the program, and then the results of the above research were as follows;
First, the program had a positive effect on daily-life function. Much improvement was appeared such areas as clothing control, dressing, out-fitting, and personal health. From the results of this research, the life-centered career education program was thought to be a good program to form daily-life function.
Second, the above program had a positive effect on socialization function among vocational adaptative skill. The improvement was appeared at the environmental adaptive skill and relation maintaining ability which mental retardation had most difficulty in the vocational life and maintenance. The areas such as asking help, cooperation with others, association with others, reactions on reprimand showed much improvement.
Third, the above program had a favorable effect on irrational behaviors. The mentally retarded had trouble in controlling desires arising in the interior of themselves and were not accustomed to controlling their behaviors according to situations, but they recognized the problems of their behaviors from the above research, and the number and degree of that behaviors were decreased.
Fourth, the program had a positive effect on working function among vocational adaptative skill. In order to conform to their job, mental retardation should have personal ability and usefulness as a career person, and law-abiding mind, responsibility, perseverance, cooperativeness to observe the rules of company and the direction of their superiors. From the above research, the areas like the problem solving and direction fulfillment showed much improvement, and the areas of concentration and leisure activities showed a little improvement.
Vocational adaptative skill was not to get and maintain job in pre-paration for the subject's employment but to cause the change of their behaviors through traditional guides and consult, and vocational adaptative program. In summary, life-centered career education program was thought to be effective to mental retardation' s employment and job seeking, so this program should be regarded absolutely important to main activities.