Unlike general students in Hong Kong, people with intellectual disabilities (ID) lack opportunities to learn and practice life-planning skills. While the importance of life planning education for people with ID has generally been recognized in recent years, no structured curriculum is available for them to learn the relevant knowledge, skills, and attitude. Social workers, special education teachers and parents have appealed for a well-developed curriculum plus visual tools on life planning for people with ID.

A curriculum which aims to enhance the life-planning skills for people with ID has been developed, and its effectiveness has already been evidenced by an RGC-funded randomized controlled trial study in 2020. An e-learning platform will be developed to provide self-help resources, such as activity plans, worksheets, videos, presentation files, and articles, for social workers, special educators, and parents to learn the know-how of applying the curriculum. To facilitate their adoption of the curriculum in practice, teaching tools kits and an educational app which helps people with ID to learn and execute life-planning skills will be produced.

The project provides easy and accessible opportunities for people with ID to learn and practise life planning related skills at school, at home and disability services. Social workers, teachers, and parents can learn an evidence-based curriculum and apply it in practice to support people with ID to grasp the relevant skills. Disability service organizations and special schools can adapt the curriculum to their services.

• People with ID and their parents, social workers in disability services and special educators (>600 individuals)


• Disability service organizations and special schools (>50 service units)


• Researchers and policy makers interested in topics related to people with ID

2023

Education, Ethnic Minorities, Software, Well-being