PERAN REHABILITASI SOSIAL DALAM PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN VOKASIONAL DISABILITAS NETRA

Studi ini mengangkat peran rehabilitasi sosial dalam peningkatan keterampilan vokasional disabilitas netra. Rehabilitasi sosial merupakan solusi bagi disabilitas netra agar dapat mengembangkan keterampilan vokasional guna memenuhi keberfungsiansosial mereka secara persuasif, motivatif, koersif, baik dalam lingkungan keluarga, masyarakat ataupun panti sosial. Rehabilitasi sosial telah banyak dilakukan di beberapa kota di Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian untuk mendeskripsikan peran rehabilitasi sosial dalam peningkatan keterampilan vokasional disabilitas netra. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kepustakaan (literature review) yang menganalisis sekitar sebelas artikel bereputasi. Hasil analisis kajian literatur diperoleh bahwa peran rehabilitasi sosial bagi disabilitas netra berfungsi mengembangkan kemampuan dan potensi yang dimiliki oleh disabilitas netra agar mereka dapat hidup mandiri secara sosial dan ekonomi melalui bimbingan keterampilan vokasional.

Kata Kunci : rehabilitasi sosial, disabilitas netra, keterampilan vokasional

This study raises the role of social rehabilitation in improving the vocational skills of the blind. Social rehabilitation is a solution for blind people with disabilities in order to develop vocational skills to fulfill their social functioning in a persuasive, motivating, coercive manner, both within the family, community or social institutions. Social rehabilitation has been carried out in several cities in Indonesia. The aim of the study was to analyze the role of social rehabilitation in improving the vocational skills of the blind. This research method uses literature review which analyzes about eleven reputable articles. The results of the analysis of the literature study found that the role of social rehabilitation for the blind has a function to develop the abilities and potentials of the blind with disabilities so that they can live independently socially and economically through the guidance of vocational skills.

Keywords : social rehabilitation, blind disability, vocational skills