Aplicação e análise de um programa customizado para a inclusão de jovens com deficiência intelectual em atividades laborais.

Abstract

The present research has the objective of implement and evaluate a program that inserts young people with intellectual disabilities in work activities at the School of Education College of the Rio de Janeiro State University. For that, the concept of customized job was used, which is based on the creation/adaptation of work posts in companies and other institutions, meeting the demands of the employer with the skills of the handicap person, the forma that benefits both parties. One of the procedures of work customization is the Positive Personal Profile PPP, a strategy to trace the skills and difficulties people with disability have, in a way to facilitate their inclusion in the work market and other social spaces. Four youth with intellectual disability took part on the research, they were called trainees and were indicated by the teachers of a special school of the public network of Rio de Janeiro; they were graduates formation courses in general services (cleaning) and administrative helpers. The methodology used was the action research, with data collected from semi-structured interviews with the subjects and employees of the School of Education, as well as from the observation of their performance. Semi-structured interviews with the mothers of the subjects and with the employees of the Education College that had direct contact with the trainees, provided complementary data. The initial interviews with the trainees served as a foundation to trace their PPP, and determine the activities that would be more adequate for them. The interview with the supervisors from the College had the objective of understanding the functioning dynamic and the institutions work needs. The elaboration of the PPP allowed the break of some barriers of the work market, like minimal school graduation, capacitation, among others, because when you understand the characteristics of the subject you can find work functions that adapt to his uniqueness and at the same time fulfill the employers needs. We conclude, based on the data collected, that analyzing the work environment with the objective of offering proper workforce is prerequisite for laboral inclusion of deficient people. Job customization contributes for eliminating the barriers of attitude and prejudice, enhancing the probabilities of a satisfactory production and performance meeting both the institution and the employee s needs.