Session Information
04 SES 06 B, Transitions
Paper Session
Contribution
An ongoing research project at the Department of Education and Human Development of the University of Vienna funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) over a period of three years (2008-2011) attempts to gather data on the participation experiences of people with an intellectual impairment diagnosis who are undergoing the transition from school to working life or who are already participating in working life.
The aim of the research project is to reconstruct objectively identifiable as well as subjectively experienced participation in the life history of people with intellectual disability undergoing this transition process as well as their participation experiences on the labour market under special consideration of institutional preconditions in Austria.
For this purpose, a nationwide full-population survey was undertaken in 2009 which was targeted especially at the transition from school to working life on the level of objectively identifiable participation; this survey included two specifically designed interviewing rounds with school district superintendents and parents at two different points in time. These interviews gathered personal data on the school situation, the educational and transition process as well as the support needs of an entire age group (n=3000) which has been taught either according to the syllabus for severely disabled students or according to the syllabus for general special schools and who graduated from school at the end of the academic year 2009. In addition, personal data such as data regarding the educational and transition process, information on support needs as well as detailed data on the process of professional integration of persons who have received support by service institutions in the reference year 2008 has been collected by means of a nationwide survey of institutions offering employment market support (such as “Clearing”, a counselling service offered to school leavers with special needs, “Work integration assistance”, aimed at supporting people with disabilities in their integration into the labour market, “Vocational training assistance”, etc.) The focus of the research project, however, is on capturing the subjective perspective of the persons concerned by using methods of participative research with intellectually impaired people and by working with reference groups in the process of validating qualitative research data.
In this presentation, I will present and discuss results on quantitative data from this research project concerning the educational and transition processes to work of school leavers with an intellectual disability in austria.
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References
Biewer, G., Fasching, H. and Koenig, O. (2009) Teilhabe von Menschen mit einer intellektuellen Beeinträchtigung an Bildung, Arbeit und Forschung (Forschungsnotiz). SWS-Rundschau, 49, 3, 391-403. Fasching, H. (2007): Beraterinnen und Berater für die berufliche Integration von Menschen mit Behinderungen. In: Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete (VHN), 4, 315-323. Fasching, H. & Niehaus, M. (2008): Berufsvorbereitung und berufliche Integration. In: Gasteiger-Klicpera, B., Julius, H. & Klicpera, C. (Hrsg.), Sonderpädagogik der sozialen und emotionalen Entwicklung. Handbuch der Pädagogik und Psychologie bei Behinderungen, Band 3 (Hrsg. der Reihe: J. Borchert & H. Goetze). Göttingen, 727-739.
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