Re-Focusing the Education of Persons with Disabilties Towards Independent Living through Vocational and Technical Education

Abstract

This paper looks at persons with disabilities (PWDs) as bonafide citizens of this great nation and considers their challenges as they struggle to meet up with life demands. It expounds the fact that for meaningful and independent living, the education of PWDs needs to be properly repositioned. For this noble objective to be achieved, the persons with disabilities have to be more exposed to Vocational and technical education than liberal education for the acquisition of saleable skills for self-reliance. The paper also explains among other things, the concept of disability and persons with disability, concept of vocational and Technical education (VTE), vocational and technical education for persons with disabilities, inclusive learning for persons with disabilities in VTE. Finally, recommendations were made that government at all levels, should provide zero interest loans for the graduates of VTE programmes in order to establish their own trades.