VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUAL WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUAL WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

     

      Vocational program for individual with intellectual disability is a part of transitional program for a matured individual who are given the privilege to work like an ordinary human being. The students can participate in various training opportunities, this is a more difficult task involvement that needs their cooperation and perseverance just like in an actual work, there are reasonable adjustments that they need to just and they must highly adopt in work settings to be able to perform about the training. Teachers may need to measure a proper guideline and tolerance about this types or workers. Most of them can adopt poorly and slowly but they will soon comply just like in any other vocational student once they get familiar with the course.

      Let us take for example the Woods Services at 40 Martin Gross Drive, Langhorne PA, United States they are serving people with intellectual disability since 1913. They understand the situations of their students and they are sensitive to their needs, they are the one to visit them to conduct testing and admission of these students to their home when requested. Woods Services is recognized in providing the best services by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Education and many other organizations within the country. They can provide various academic and vocational programs for all ages and they are even willing to admit residential services as required.

      Woods Services can provide various services in educational and vocational for people with autism, brain injury and other intellectual disability. These offers are structured to fit their individual needs that will prepare them for future employment or on the job training. Some of the following educational and vocational activities to choose from include flower arrangement, packaging assembly, clients training and skills training supported with vocational training experts in their respective fields.  http://www.woods.org/php/services.programs/vocational.php

      In Brian’s House Enterprises they offer services in vocational course for individual with intellectual disability; task involves various production processes including packaging skills, machine operation, and clerical operation. The task may involve higher theories of learning and practical approach so that students may learn seriously they are registered to operate vocational programs under the Department of Labor. They are also able to maintain their goal which is for students to increase their work ethics and tolerance, quality and quantity. Students can work 6 hours per day and five days per week and they can expect an Industry Standard Salary at work. Brian’s house is located at Trestle Place, Trestle Bridge Business Center in Downington PA, USA.

      In Brian’s house in order to be accepted they will need to pass the pre evaluation test to receive such services. Ones they are accepted the students are to be assisted in their initial stages at work and they are position at the workplace according to their ability and interest so that they can be familiar with the flow until they become comfortable in the workplace then they will partly leahttp://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2009/10/developing-teamwork-a-case-study.htmlrn to work on their own with less supervision. They will also learn from the start how to travel back and forth; they are taught the strategy and initiatives, cooperation and standard operating procedures of various phases of work. http://www.bheonline.com/

      In Australia the (ANTA) or Australian National Training Authority in Brisbane Queensland, what they do with people intellectual disability who wants to enroll in vocational courses and those who are qualified are supported and trained in specific courses and work related skills according to the interest that matches their conditions. They are evaluated to choose accordingly for Hairdressing, Cooking lessons, Jewelry making, Child Care assistance, Warehousing and Production. It is also possible for students to take two simple courses at a time according to their ability and skills.

      In Sydney Institute Petersham Tafe the students must be able to demonstrate corporate and commercial skills to be able to pass the evaluation, it is therefore necessary to work on the job or the actual production of sponsored company for example 3 days to the company and 2 days in Tafe until such time the students have gained control and master the job. When the student met the job expectation by the sponsoring company and they are able to work independently they may be given the opportunity to work in the company as full time depending on their available task and evaluation. http://www.sit.nsw.edu.au/studentservices/?Media_Index_ID=728   

      The example organizations above are just merely a representation of hundreds of possibility and opportunity for people and individual with intellectual disability that they can join if they want there are more opportunities around the world today. The presence of the internet has given them more access wherever location they may be living, they just have to meet the opportunities. In USA alone there are more than 200,000 people with disability has been employed. http://federaljobs.net/disabled.htm.

       

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