Work education trains people with special needs to understand the world of work and prepares them for their possible future career. No doubt, it is big transition for them to enter into any employment. They face difficulty adjusting in the new environment and fail to understand competition that exists in the market.
Under work education curriculum, special people are offered counseling and are provided intense training in vocational skills. It involves awareness of work ethics, appropriate work habits, and responsibility sharing. In addition, it includes development and inculcation of values such as punctuality, honesty, respect for teamwork, dignity of labor, and productivity consciousness etc.
They obviously take more time to adjust to the work environment, develop rapport with colleagues and they also take time to understand money management. Work education thus acts as an interface between world of work and education that changes their attitude and creates awareness to them exposing them to various job opportunities. Thus, students with special needs while pursuing training are able to figure out what all jobs are suitable to them. They are able to take up vocation in accordance to their abilities, aptitudes, and interest.
SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT
Supported employment is another concept under work educats an opportunity to earn comion that provides persons with disabilities or special need petitive wages along with their other co-workers. The approach used under this concept is place-train rather train-place one which means individual is placed on the job and then provided training on the job-site. This approach is helpful to people with disabilities who have never worked competitively and their work history has been interrupted of their disability.
