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INTEGRATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,
WHO BECAME DISABLED IN THE WORKING AGE,
INTO THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE REGION
V. I. Lutoshina
This article deals with the integration of people with disabilities, who became disabled when of working age, in the context of lifelong education. The article provides the results of a regional sociological case study on the problems of social adaptation and integration of people, who became disabled during working age.
Key words: integration, social services for population, people with disabilities, who became disabled in working age.
The process of lifelong education and integration of people in the region with disabilities (the disabled), who became disabled during working age, is regulated by the Orenburg State Pedagogical University (a division of the Institute of Advanced Training and Retraining of Teachers), and the Complex Centre of Social Services for the Population of the South District of Orenburg.
On the basis of the Complex Centre of Social Services for the Population of the South District of Orenburg, within the framework of a research project carried out in 2014, a sociological study was undertaken to examine the problems of social adaptation and integration of people with disabilities, who became disabled in during working age. A representative sample comprised 87 citizens of Orenburg and the Orenburg region. 37 people (42.5%) were women and 50 (57.5%) were men. 18-25 years old comprised 6 persons (6.9%) from the total number of respondents; 26-35 years old - 9 persons (10.35%); 36-45 years old - 17 persons (19.5%); 45 and older - 55 persons (63.25%).
To the question, "What are the daily problems faced by people with disabilities, who became disabled during working age?” the respondents answered as follows: problem of employment - 42.5%; lack of support from the government -28.75%; 14 respondents gave the following answers: lack of understanding -16,1% and inability to take full advantage of the world without external assistance -12.65%.
In the course of the survey, it was found out that the most important issues for people with disabilities who became disabled during working age, are: education and employment - 37.95%; communicative accessibility
(communication) - 18.4%; information access - 16.1%; no answer - 12.65%; poor infrastructure (7 respondents (8%)); employment according to their received specialization (6 respondents (6.9%)).
To the question, "What educational or psycho-educational work should be carried out for people, who became disabled during working age, for their social adaptation and integration?" the respondents' answers were as follows: distance work (educational services) - 43.7%; club work (psychological and pedagogical training, tests) - 33.35%; organization of various kinds of project teams (sports, cultural and artistic) - 19.5%; 3 respondents gave their own answers, i.e. going to the theater and to the cinema.
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The sociological research has revealed a number of dominant problems, actualized interests of academic staff and specialists in social institutions which study the problem, helped to design and forecast further work on the social adaptation and integration of people with disabilities who became disabled during working age into the educational environment of the Orenburg region [3].
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Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translastions Bureas
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