Nowadays visually impaired students attend both mainstream schools and the Lithuanian Education and Training Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired. These students meet certain learning difficulties caused by impaired vision or other problems related to the impairment. This study aimed to investigate and answer a question: „Do the pupils’ choice a vacation that correspond with their abilities and possibilities.
The written questionnaire has been used as a method of the study.
The questions had to describe to:
ь social background of the visually impaired pupils;
ь their knowledge about themselves and their family members;
ь their perception of their disability and self-esteem;
ь opinions of the pupils about quality of vocational couselling;
ь learning motivation of the visually impaired pupils;
ь intention of adequacy of the visually impaired pupils‘ choice of vocation
169 pupils were involved into the investigation (there were totally blind and those having mild impairment of vision).
Conclusions:
§ The visually impaired pupils particularly need parents‘ encouragement and support. If a family is not interested in educational process of a pupil the pupil doesn’t‘ have any learning motivation and intentions to choice a certain vocation.
§ The pupil’s choice vocations that do not correspond with their abilities since they do not comprehend their disability adequately.
§ Vocational counselling in the Lithuanian education and training centre for the... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050622_172544-16830 |
| Date | 22 June 2005 |
| Creators | Gureckienė, Lina |
| Contributors | Guoba, Andrius, Galkienė, Alvyra, Barkauskaitė, Marija, Gudonis, Vytautas, Aleksienė, Vilmantė, Žilionis, Juozas, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050622_172544-16830 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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