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Promoting employment among people with disabilities: Challenges and solutions
Social Work and Social Sciences Review
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Promoting employment among people with disabilities: Challenges and solutions
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Hanga, Karin; Astangu Vocational Rehabilitation Center / Tallinn University
DiNitto, Diana M; University of Texas at Austin Wilken, Jean Pierre; Research Centre for Social Innovation, HU Utrecht University of Applied Science |
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This article focuses on difficulties that people with disabilities and reduced work capacity experience in employment and social participation, and on their rehabilitation goals, in order to make recommendations for policy and social and vocational rehabilitation service provision. A semi-structured interview procedure, which included the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0, was used to conduct initial needs assessments with 85 persons in Estonia. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered and analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. Results revealed that participants experienced multiple difficulties, which they mostly ascribed to unstable health conditions, that limited their abilities to participate in employment and social activities. A large number of participants also identified themselves as unemployed for health reasons and linked their rehabilitation goals to health restoration rather than becoming employed. Difficulties such as lack of work skills, unsuitable work tempo, mobility limitations, and emotional problems were also mentioned. To support people with disabilities in obtaining and maintaining employment, services must correspond to the persons´ need; and comprehensive, person-centred rehabilitation assessment, service planning, and budgeting mechanisms are needed. Supportive legislation, flexibility in service provision, and the availability of needs-based rehabilitation and other services, including lifelong learning opportunities, are also necessary to help people learn new work skill
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Whiting & Birch Ltd
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2015-12-07
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/847
10.1921/swssr.v18i1.847 |
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Social Work and Social Sciences Review; Vol 18, No 1: Austerity and some contemporary challenges for professionalism; 31-51
1746-6105 0953-5225 |
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eng
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https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/847/923
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Copyright (c) 2015 Social Work and Social Sciences Review
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