This study investigated the effects of a client-centered vocational rehabilitation program on vocational basic ability, vocational performance ability, and vocational adjustment ability to improve the job competency of adolescents with cerebral palsy.
This study was conducted using a multiple intermittent baseline design between the behaviors of individual research subjects from March 19 to August 27, 2018. The subjects for this study were three adolescents with cerebral palsy who were attending special schools in B County in A Province. The intervention program was performed for 40 minutes every Monday and Wednesday, and the vocational basic ability, vocational performance ability, and vocational adjustment ability of the subjects were measured after each session based on the intervention step. To examine the changes in these abilities during the baseline, intervention, and maintenance periods, a visual analysis method using descriptive statistics and graphs was applied.
The results of this study showed that the client-centered vocational rehabilitation program improved the subjects’ vocational basic ability by acquiring and repeatedly training the tasks of physical and cognitive function needed for the subjects’ job competency. The program also improved the subjects’ vocational performance ability by encouraging active participation and adjusting the tasks that involved specific techniques of the job to manageable steps, considering the ability of each subject. The program improved the subjects’ vocational adjustment ability by actively integrating the basic function, specific technique, procedures, and transitions required for target job competency through strong internal motivation to acquire the job of each subject.
Therefore, the client-centered vocational rehabilitation program of this study is proposed as a vocational rehabilitation program because it has had a positive effect on job competency by improving the vocational basic ability, vocational performance ability, and vocational adjustment ability of adolescents with cerebral palsy.