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Innovative approaches to develop vocational SKills of People with severe disabilities
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

The SKIP project addresses the individual and social needs of people affected by severe disabilities, promoting training and improving learning opportunities to avoid their marginalisation and loss of human capital. To ensure that adult people with severe disabilities reach their full potential and receive the support they deserve, qualified operators and trainers are needed to provide these individuals with self-determination skills .When people with severe disabilities can learn to advocate for themselves, the dependence on others is reduced and their social integration’s chances get higher. Starting from the concept all individuals can and do learn, the SkiP project intends to find out the most efficient learning methodologies to get vocational skills affordable to people with severe disabilities, taking into consideration two main topics: • the process of acquisition of key competences, technical and vocational skills shall fit the specific learning needs of people with severe disabilities (limited speech or communication; difficulty in basic physical mobility; tendency to forget skills through disuse; trouble generalizing skills from one situation to another; need for support in major life activities), • Operators and trainers need to know how to provide appropriate and effective instruction as well as how to challenge the learners to attain higher goals. Changes regarding the training of adult people with severe disabilities involve maintaining high expectations for learning, inclusive environments, and assuming more active roles in a social and working environment. The main project outcome consist in learning modules that could be used by operators and trainers supporting adult people with severe disabilities in acquiring vocational and key skills: • in different contexts (training courses, practice enterprises, rehabilitation pathways, transition enterprises, associations)• by involving different typologies of people with severe disabilities
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