Teilnahme an Arbeit durch technische Assistenz

A comprehensive realization of social participation for all individuals of the population presents itself as a specific challenge, in which the working world proves to be an important sphere.
In spite of normative reference points through socio-political innovations, particularly people with intellectual disabilities and a high need of support are excluded. Even in sheltered workshops, this group of people is excluded from participating in work as the challenges of life and labor in the 21st century are becoming ever more complex and the demands of the production and business side are growing to be stricter.
As a result, people with intellectual disabilities and a high need for support often fall off the radar in current inclusion efforts and – in spite of legal obligations – do not receive adequate support to participate in work.
In order to counteract the negligence and tacit acceptance of the deprivation of a large part of the sheltered workshop employees – in the sense of social affiliation by participation in work – design options for promoting a participation in work has to be considered comprehensively for them.
On the basis of an intensive field study and by using differentiated methodological approaches (mixed methods approach), the use of technical assistance to promote participation in work for people with intellectual disabilities and a high need for support was examined.
With the addition of perspectives on affiliation, work and recognition theory, the present work documents the promotion of participation in work through technical assistance for the group of people with intellectual disabilities and a high need for support as well as with regard to the (further) development of the institutions of sheltered workshops.
Following this, along with the characteristics of the phenomenon of promoting participation in work of people with intellectual disabilities and a high need for support, a critical reference is made to social contexts.