ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТЕЙ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ ПРЕДПОЧТЕНИЙ ПОДРОСТКОВ С ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНЫМИ НАРУШЕНИЯМИ ПРИ ОВЛАДЕНИИ ПРОФЕССИЕЙ ОПЕРАТОР ШВЕЙНОГО ОБОРУДОВАНИЯ

Abstract

Introduction. The professional preferences of adolescents with intellectual disabilities re-quire special attention in the prospects of work on their socialization. Teachers develop and shape the skills and abilities that are available to the adolescent to assert themselves in their chosen profession. At the same time, when choosing each profession to be mastered by a student with intellectual disabilities, it is necessary to understand the peculiarities of their professional preferences. The relevance of issues in this area determined the content of our research. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of professional preferences of adolescents with intellectual disabilities when mastering the profession of sewing equipment operator and to develop recommendations designed to help in mastering the skills required in the profession. Materials and methods. The study involved 28 students enrolled in the vocational training program 16185 sewing equipment operator (OSHO) for people with intellectual disabilities aged 16 to 20 years, groups OSHO-21 and OSHO-22. All students enrolled in the college after graduating from a special correctional school or correctional classes of secondary schools. The following methods and techniques were used in the study: the method of theoretical analysis of scientific, special and psychological-pedagogical literature, the study and generalization of pedagogical experience, the analysis of research results; empirical methods: the method of expert assessment, pedagogical experiment, the method of qualitative and quantitative analysis. The results. The study revealed the peculiarities of professional preferences, which made it possible not only to determine and understand the correspondence of adolescents’ abilities and interests to the profession but also to identify their problems: in mastering hand sewing tools and in the process of laying out patterns. The groups of subjects were described. The prerequisites for mastering the profession of sewing equipment operator among the adolescents in the experimental group are identified. Conclusion. Based on the identified difficulties in mastering professional skills and abilities in adolescents with intellectual disabilities, the components of the professional sphere necessary for their further development in the learning process were determined. On this basis, differentiated recommendations were developed for the students to master professional skills and abilities in the following areas: theoretical, communicative and vocational.