Aspects Related to the Educational and Vocational Guidance of Intellectually Impaired Students

Our society promotes the right of every citizen to education, employment, aiming at the professional and social integration of each individual. This value implies that persons with disabilities who wish to undertake productive activities should be granted the chance of getting a job without this forcing them to give up other rights or benefits that may affect their dignity and decent living conditions. This paper aims to highlight the influence of parents and of the type of school upon the students’ vocational interests attempting, at the same time, to identify the role played by the future prospect and how it may influence the projected interests of students with mild mental impairment. The group included a number of 640 subjects, 336 girls and 304 boys, students in the 7th and 8th grade, from special and integrating schools with programs for integrating students with special needs, from the some counties of Romania.Conclusionsin the process of the educational and vocational guidance of students with special needs it is recommended that teachers, as well as parents, should inform themselves better about the learning abilities, the level of knowledge, skills and interests of each individual student; in this way they will be able to assist them in choosing a profession.