Vocational


 * Vocational Training/ counselling**


 * These services are usually run by government agencies and serve a wide range of people.

What is Vocational Training/ Counselling?
 * Working with a counsellor to evaluate skills, learn how to improve skills, learn how to successfully search for jobs, and develop methods for effectively applying and interviewing for work.
 * Vocational counsellor is likely to identify interests of the client, and this may be achieved through survey testing and conversation. They would try to determine the client’s strengths.

Why is it useful within learning disabilities?
 * Every case is different but depending on the individual’s needs and capabilities the training can help them transition and find paid employment, training schemes, volunteer work or activities and groups they may want to attend that are of interest to them.
 * The counsellor could also help them to find different courses they may want to go on to improve their skills and further their education. This could then lead to employment.

Mary Scenario –
 * It states that Mary has Turner syndrome and this has resulted in some health problems. The scenario does not state what the level of Mary’s learning disability is. Therefore, it makes it hard to say how she could benefit from vocational training. However, if it not for paid employment, the training could certainly help her in some way to find ways of developing her skills whether that is through courses or activities in her spare time.