title: [Independent living skills for physically handicapped students with profound disability].
abstract: Traditional educational curricula are inadequate for physically disabled students with very severe consequences of disablement, as they are insufficiently geared toward building Independent Living skills. Typical of their post-school situation nowadays, only few of them are in a position of making a direct transition into vocational training. The majority continues to need intensive educational-therapeutic services. The schools for the physically disabled seek to smoothen their transition into adult life by leaving-grade programmes aimed at providing opportunities for work-related experience as well as at building coping skills for day-to-day living. The work and life preparation programme represents a special organizational and didactical conception in this context, where the demands of adult life serve as the starting point for developing the learning and educational goals to be attained.
authors.affiliation: Universität Dortmund Fachbereich Sondererziehung und Rehabilitation, FRG.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stadler
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000193:education*; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D014829:Vocational Education