정신지체인의 직업재활에 관한 부모의 인식 및 욕구조사

Abstract

Parents' needs concerned with vocational rehabilitation of their child may be manifested more accurately when they have better understanding and awareness of vocational rehabilitation services and child's ability of vocational rehabilitation. The purpose of this research was to investigate the parents' awareness level of vocational rehabilitation for the persons with mental retardation and their pertinent needs. The participants of this study were parents having child with mental retardation using or residing in rehabilitation center for the disabled in Gyeongbuk region. Also it was intended to examine the relations between awareness and needs, and difference of needs according to level of awareness, and to find out how vocational rehabilitation services rendered by the rehabilitation center have been changed or how to cope with such difficult situations. Additionally, these research works were performed forming a hypothesis that parents' needs concerned with vocational rehabilitation for people with metal retardation accordant with degree of awareness of child's vocational ability and level of understanding and recognition possessed by parents with regard to vocational rehabilitation process implemented by the rehabilitation center and services thereof would be different. So then, degree of awareness of status quo and needs were carefully examined, however, in this study, I was not able to identify clearly that needs would be changed or make certain differences occur according to the degree of awareness. With this regard, further study may benefit from works in depth concerned about this subject.