Competency Development of Personal Assistant in Northeastern Thailand
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This research aimed to 1) study necessary competencies 2) survey current competencies 3) design the competency development method of personal assistants to be consistent with the personal assistant’s necessary competencies. The research design was research and development, with 4 phases. Phrase 1: Part 1 of the research was the study of personal assistants’ necessary competencies; the informants consisted of personal assistants, public officers, people with disabilities; medical professionals, disability organization staff, located in the area of six provinces; the director and officer of the department of empowerment of person with disabilities used the semi-structured interviews for the snowball sampling; and part 2 of the research was the survey of personal assistants’ current competencies. Phrase 2 of the research was the design of the competency development method, consisting of part 1: the focus group discussion; and part 2: the experiment of implementation of the personal assistants’ competency development. Phrase 3 was the competency development evaluation. The final stage, phase 4, was the manual development of the personal assistant’s competency development method. It was found that 1) the necessary competencies included 4 core competencies and 18 competencies identified by disability types; 2) the total average levels of all personal assistants’ current competencies were at the highest levels, 3) the design of the personal assistant’s competency development method to be consistent with the personal assistant’s necessary competencies was the 24 topics manual for regional organizations and organizations networks regarding with people with disabilities to provide the competency development activities for personal assistants and people related in people with disabilities care.
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