PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION, QUALIFICATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Abstract

The textbook titled “People with disabilities: professional orientation, qualification and employment” by Prof. Dr. Risto Petrov, was published in March 2007.
The textbook is presented on 214 pages, computer processed.       
Topics included in the textbook are contemporary, current, clearly and documentarily worked out. They form a unit which presents the people with disabilities, reflects the professional orientation, qualification and employment of these people. The topics are fully adjusted to the subject, that according to ECTS, students of the Institute for Special Education and Rehabilitation study during the sixth semester.
The material is structured in two parts: a general and a specific one, each consisting of several chapters.
In the first, the General part, two units are worked out. In the first group of issues, the author considers the People with disabilities, especially those with impaired vision, impaired hearing, physically disabled people and people with mental retardation, as well as people with combined developmental disabilities. The author indicates on the definition, classification, especially points out the characteristics of these people from the aspect of their possibilities and abilities for work qualification and employment,
In the second group of issues, the author talks about the Protection and rehabilitation of people with disabilities. He presents awareness about these issues since the first known documents. Furthermore, he defines the term rehabilitation and points out the conditions, principles, methods and tasks in rehabilitation of people with disabilities