Abbas Ali Hosseinkhanzadeh; Ali Reza Mohammdiarya
Volume 3, Issue 10 , March 2013, , Pages 21-44
Abstract
Thisresearch aims at identifying the necessary social skills for students withmental retardation in work place.The present study is a descriptive-survey design. In this regard, 142teachers are selected as sample using convenient sampling method. In the nextstage, perspectives of teachers are surveyed ...
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Thisresearch aims at identifying the necessary social skills for students withmental retardation in work place.The present study is a descriptive-survey design. In this regard, 142teachers are selected as sample using convenient sampling method. In the nextstage, perspectives of teachers are surveyed using a researcher-developedquestionnaire. After preliminary study and determination of the psychometricproperties of the questionnaire, it is administered on the target samples. The data analysis identified the 25necessary social skills for students with mental retardation in work place. As a conclusion, social skillsinclude various levels prioritized by teachers for the success of persons withmental retardation in work place. Therefore, socialskills identified in this study can be used in vocational planning for mentallyretarded students