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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: This paper discussed the place of counselling for persons with visual impairment for effective career choice. This study is mainly significant in two respects: the place of counselling within the radius of Nigerian education has been downplayed as it is very possible to enrol in primary, secondary and tertiary education without formal counselling for once, and secondly, it draws attention to the counselling needs of persons with visual impairment on career choice which is indispensable because of their 'special' character. Career choice is an important issue in every man's life. For persons with visual impairment, making a career choice is not always easy, and making an effective choice requires the inputs of many professionals amongst whom are the guidance counsellors. One technique through which counselling achieves results is through career education. Critical as career education and counselling may be, both have received less significance attention which invariably impinge on the success of persons with visual impairment in making effective career choices. Many persons with visual impairment have lost out on their ambition for lack of proper counselling. For effective counselling on career choice, amongst the counsellor's strategy will be the need to seek and use the parents' knowledge in developing the counselling programmes or manuals, development and maintenance of effective communication between parents and the counsellors/professionals, and explanation of what is being recommended and why it is done. The paper concluded that in counselling persons with visual impairment on career choices, counsellors should among other things assess the strength of available resources, the interest of the visually impaired person, the intellectual capacity of the student, the excellent of the handicapping condition and the nature of the economy. |
| Keywords: counselling, visual, impairment, career, national, development. |
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