The purpose of this study is to present a Supported-Employment Model for the people who are related to vocational education of students with moderately and severely intellectual disabilities. Some severely disabled people who were graduated from speci...
The purpose of this study is to present a Supported-Employment Model for the people who are related to vocational education of students with moderately and severely intellectual disabilities. Some severely disabled people who were graduated from special schools or special-education classrooms work in sheltered workshops with poor salary of less than 40 dollors a month and the rest are jobless. Also the usual type of work in sheltered workshop is simple assembly manufacturing-work which gives neither satisfaction nor meaningfulness to these people.
The results of a few case studies conducted by the Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disabled have been very encouraging. Most samples of the case studies were hired after on-the-job training and post-employment service with the help of vocational rehabilitation workers. The type of employment were human-care hospitals for elderly people, restaurants, car washing, public building maintenance, dry-cleaning and farming. Those jobs were very meaningful and gave satisfaction to the samples of the case studies. The result of those studies showed that the people with moderately and severely disabled wanted to be integrated to general society and to communicate and interchange their feeling with general people as much as possible.
In order to integrate those people into general competitive job market, all professionals related to education for them must cooperate together. The people of Korea Employment Promotion Agency and its local agencies, welfare centers for people with disabilities, vocational rehabilitation centers and special education teachers, special education vocational teachers, and parents of those handicapped people must work together for job-search and successful employment.