A Study on Perspectives of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities on Their Employment Readiness in Twin Cities of Telangana State

The primary objective of the study is to find out the Perspectives of persons with Intellectual Disabilities on their Employment Readiness in Twin Cities of Telangana State. The sample used for the study was two hundred persons with Intellectual Disabilities aging between 18-35 years, who are getting trained at vocational centres from NIEPID, SwayamKrushi, Saadhana, Lekhadeep, and Shekinah respectively. The present study was conducted through Descriptive Survey Method. Sample was selected by using non-probability, Purposive sampling technique has been used for collecting data on Perspectives of persons with Intellectual Disabilities on their Employment Readiness. In this study the researcher was developed by closed-ended “Questionnaire”. The developed questionnaire consists of: Part A deals with the demographic data of the persons with Intellectual Disabilities such as Age, Gender, Diagnosis, and Vocational Centre. Part B consists of the questionnaire for collecting Perspectives of persons with ID on their Employment Readiness. Questionnaire consists of 7 domains with 70 items. The Perspectives of the subjects were recorded by conducting a structured interview method. The time is taken to interview each person was 40-60 minutes. The analysis of data reveals that there is a significant difference in Age, Diagnosis, and Vocational center but there is no significant difference found in the Gender variable. In an age-wise comparison elder age group persons with intellectual disabilities have shown high employment readiness than younger age group PwID. Persons with Mild intellectual disabilities have shown high employment readiness than other severity level of PwID in the diagnosis variable. Center wise comparison analysis revealed that the Swayamkrushi center persons with ID showed high employment readiness than other vocational centers.