Need Assessment of Pre-vocational Skills of Persons with Mild Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Teachers’ Perspective

Abstract

“Prevocational skills are the prerequisite skills intended to meet the needs of students with high support needs (HSN) in high school to learn various independent living skills, e.g., basic academics, living and societal skills, job skills for the world of life and employment” (Wong and Mak, 2007). The objective of the current study was to assess the needs of pre-vocational skills of Persons with MIDDs. The philosophical research paradigm of the existing study was quantitative. Data were collected through a structured survey instrument with a five-point multiple-directional scale for special education teachers of persons with MIDDs. The population of the study was special education teachers of MIDDs. The study sample consisted of 116 special education teachers of MIDDs teaching in government special education and training institutes in Punjab. Major findings of the study showed that functional academic skills were assessed to be the most problematic prevocational skills of MIDDs. The study recommended that persons with MIDDs should be individually taught by using task analysis.