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Pre-Vocational Readiness with Emphasis on Oral Language Skills in People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities
Maria Drossinou-Korea * drossinou@hotmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-3668-4825
University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Kalamata, GREECE
Elissavet Spyropoulou * alis.spyropoulou@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-8562-7731
University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Kalamata, GREECE
Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2019, 2(2), 59-70 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0202.03059d
Online Published Date: 7 December 2019
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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KEY WORDS: learning readiness, pre-vocational readiness, teaching speech/oral skills, intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD).
ABSTRACT:
The aim of this study is to investigate the levels of spoken language teaching in adults with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD) in terms of functional adaptive behavior in the community. In addition, learning and prevocational readiness with emphasis on relation to the rationalization of their needs at community bases. The methodology utilized the observation adapting in the persons with mental disabilities with records. The Informal Pedagogical Assessment (IPA) with basic control checklists (BCCL) has record in spoken language and pre-vocational readiness, according to the philosophy of the Greek Curriculum and the Framework Curriculum for Special Education (FCSE, 1995). Also, it used the study of bibliographic texts and the teaching data from six cases studies with mental and intellectual developmental disabilities, five women aged 26-30 and one 45-year-old man. The survey was conducted at the Physical and Medical Rehabilitation Center, in Kalamata, Peloponnese, Greece, which it is shortly called (KEFIAP) in the Greek language. The results recorded the positive responsiveness from their every week participation in the programs of KEFIAP. So, we underline two key themes which emerged regarding the teaching data: (a) the difficulties to the adaptive behavior was apparent due to the inability to understand linguistic concepts; and (b) the difficulties to understand rules formulated in linguistic terms for the social communication and integration. The implications of the observation methodology of special education and training (SET) to oral teaching intervention were useful for the teaching of learning and pre-vocational readiness skills and applied in accordance with the intellectual developmental disabilities.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Maria Drossinou-Korea, University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department of Philology, Κalamata, GREECE. E-mail: drossinou@hotmail.com.
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