The significance of the supported employing for mentally handicapped people

Abstract The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of employing intellectually disabled people. The aim of this work is to clarify attitude of intellectually disabled adults to the phenomenon of work. The component aim is to elucidate the impact of the work on their lives, and also to explore what is the role of the Supported employing in this issue. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and empirical part. The theorectial part is concerned with the fundamental terminology, classification of the intellectual disability according to ICD - 10 and and ICD - 11, special help for intellectually disabled people and supported employing which is crucial for the empirical part. The empirical part contains stated aim of the research and reasearch questions as well. Apart from this, there is also described methodology of the research. Qualitative research is chosen, and semistructured interview is used as a method of data collection. Afterwards, the interviews are analysed within the open coding and the results are processed into the individul categories. Next, all three stated research questions are answered. The bachelor thesis represents attitudes of intellectually disabled people to work. On the basis of the research results, it is possible to state that intellectually disabled people, who have participated in the research, have big motivation to find and keep an employment. The employment signally influences their lives. The supported employing has a significant importance during job finding for this group. The results of work are profitable for all who are engaged in employing intellectually disabled people. It is possible then to use the theoretical part as a summary of complete information and opinions of informants for specialists interested in this issue. These may be also used as a base materials for further research dealing with this topic