Abstract

SEFOTHO, Maximus Monaheng. Educational Transition of Students with Disabilities: Beyond School. "What Will Happen to Him when I Am No Longer Alive?". Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2017, n.73, pp.59-76. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/01203916.73rce57.74.

Disability is a social challenge. Although most students with disabilities attend school, they do not reach the education levels needed to enter the working world. Education systems fail to help them through special programs and inclusive education. In South Africa, the influential theoretical framework is based on inclusive education, but inclusion is implemented through special education. Thus, inclusion is considered the social response to disability. In this study, transition is seen as a way to respond to the challenge posed by disability to education. The school is the first stage of the transition, but it is not an appropriate response. The aim of this study is to reflect upon a mother's question concerning her son's future, "What will happen to him when I am no longer alive?" We followed a qualitative ideographic methodology. This paper presents part of a dissertation with multiple case studies of parents of intellectually challenged learners from four schools in Soweto, South Africa. The sample consisted of 35 parents of intellectually challenged children. Data collection was done through focus group discussions. The results show three themes: i) reference and diagnostic processes, ii) the support received by parents, and iii) the need for additional support. This study focuses on the last one.

Keywords : educational transition; disability; inclusive education; special education; hephapreneurship; inclusive special education.

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