Social and economic principles of supporting people with disabilities through the perspective of professional rehabilitation

Abstract

In Ukraine there are about 3 million people with disabilities who are not able to overcome the consequences of disability without the help and special care of society. All disabled people have the right to appropriate social, psychological, medical, professional and labor rehabilitation. The purpose of the research. The purpose of the study is to find out the economic and social benefits of home work of disabled people in Ukraine. Methodology. The analysis of the current Ukrainian legislation on the promotion of the disabled people employment is carried out. The organizational and legal principles of the home work application, the substantiation of home work as a type of social and psychological rehabilitation are revealed, recommendations for conducting home work for the social support of people in difficult straits have been identified. Results. It has been determined that labor rehabilitation is a system of measures developed with regard to the inclinations, physical and mental capabilities of the person and aimed at mastering the labor skills of labor activity providing the productional adaptation, including through the creation of special or specially adapted workplaces. It should be noted that the legal data framework on social and rehabilitation services of a professional and labor direction in the current legislation of Ukraine confirms to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN Convention on the Professional Recovery and Employment of Persons with Disabilities. At the same time, employment of such groups of population provides them with additional elaboration of pensions and additional financing for the development of social and rehabilitation services of the professional and labor direction. Practical meaning. It is established that labor activity, employment of disabled people is one of the most effective means of their social and psychological rehabilitation, aimed at renewal of the disabled persons’ social relations and relationships, their emotional stability, active social life, integration into an open society, expansion and deepening of social contacts, renewal of professional qualities and skills, creation of favorable conditions for development and assertiveness of the person. Prospects for further research. It is necessary to define a nomenclature list of specialists in the field of professional rehabilitation and social assistance to the persons with disabilities in accordance with the international standards, to identify their need, to provide an organizational and methodological basis for their training and further employment.