24/04/2015
APOSITIVE APPROACH TO JOB PLACEMENT FOR THE MENTALLY REDARDED
We encourage the employers to realize the advantage of hiring properly trained and qualified mentally re****ed workers with proper placement, the disability of retardation can cease to be job disability.
The trained mentally re****ed worker often can make greater contribution to his employer than the individuals who may be not re****ed but who brings no particular skills and no particular abilities .The key, of course is proper placement_ the right man in the right job.
“Mental retardation “by no means implies to total absence of skills and aptitude. Only a person’s intellectual capacity is re****ed – not necessary the rest of him. Some studies have shown mentally re****ed persons with high degrees of clerical aptitude, mechanical aptitude, dexterity, and other types of skills, proper placement can play up the skills and down the retardation.
Let’s remember that the mentally re****ed come from all walks of life. Some are born to brilliant parents, some average, some to less than average. Retardations have no bounds.
The mentally re****ed worker has pride in his work. In occupations ordinarily showing a high degree of turnover, qualified mentally re****ed workers tend to excel. They display greater stability. They prove more reliable, more loyal, and more dependable than workers who are not mentally re****ed.
All of which boils down to the fact that on certain types of jobs, the qualified mentally re****ed are excellent workers .but must be given equal opportunity for employment .how else can they show good traits?
Fred okullo HOD corpus Christi special school KENYA.