School and Business Partnerships to Support Job Training for Students with Developmental and Other Disabilities: Employers’ Perspectives

Abstract

This study examines partnerships between schools and businesses that are intended to foster training and employment opportunities for secondary students with developmental and other disabilities in Saudi Arabia. A survey was developed to investigate employers’ perspectives on students’ skills, practical strategies for training, and their contribution. Fifty-two employers participated in the survey. The findings revealed the most valued skills on job sites, such as self- determination, social, and job skills, and believed that coordination, job matching, and joint supervision are successful practices that improve training. The employers concluded that some of their contributions to such partnerships include participation in curriculum development, training students in their workplaces under their supervision, and offering financial support. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Training Transition employment Disabilities School and business partnerships

Index Keywords

Employment Skill human Humans Article communication skill workplace Students Vocational education student Saudi Arabia employer autism disability disabled person intellectual impairment physical disability developmental disorder major clinical study school Schools Curriculum development attitude high school student social competence writing work hearing impairment self advocacy self care visual impairment financial management commercial phenomena health survey Disabled Persons Autism Spectrum Disorder public-private partnership reading

Author Affiliations

Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Riyad, Saudi Arabia

Funding & Acknowledgements

Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University

This project was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University under the research Project #2017/02/8189.

Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, PSAU

Grant: 2017/02/8189

This project was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University under the research Project #2017/02/8189.

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School and Business Partnerships to Support Job Training for Students with Developmental and Other Disabilities: Employers’ Perspectives

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