Vocational Training and Vocational Placement of Hearing Impaired

Vocational training is an important component of the vocational rehabilitation process and is a step following vocational guidance. The main objective of the study was to find out the differences in the dimensions of vocational skills of the hearing impaired, between the employed and the unemployed adults and in regards to on the job training and pre service training.  The study also emphasis on finding the differences in vocational skills of employed and unemployed men and women. The tools used for the study are proforma to collect general information and a Self-developed questionnaire for measuring the vocational functioning of the hearing-impaired adults. The sample selected for the study is total of 25 hearing impaired adults. In that 9 hearing impaired adults are employed (on the job training –4 adults and pre service training -5 adults) and 16 hearing impaired adults are unemployed (on the job training -4 adults and pre service training -12 adults). Mean, SD and ‘t’- test scores are analyzed using statistical analysis.