Patterns of Street-Begging,Support Services and Vocational Aspirations

The study investigated patterns of street-begging, support services and vocational aspirations of people living with disabilities. 131 male and female street-beggars who are blind, deaf, crippled, intellectually disabled, etc were used. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-test were employed. The results showed that age, gender and marital status stood out as significant moderators of patterns of street-begging while educational level and religion did not, also educational level and religion influenced the support services while age, gender and marital status did not, all moderating variables were not significant on the vocational aspirations. It was recommended that Government should establish public counseling clinic for professional counselors and allowing them to establish private counseling clinic just like private hospitals established by Doctors in Nigeria . It was specifically recommended that four (4) rehabilitation/vocational training centers should be established in 774 local governments areas ( i.e 3,096) in Nigeria through the partnership collaboration between the three (3) tiers of Government and World bodies such as World Bank, UNESCO, UNDP,UNICEF, and British Council

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Oyelakin Ogungbade is a Tutor 1 in the Centre for Supportive Services for the Deaf, University of Ilorin. He obtained his M.Ed in Counseling from same University. He obtained NCE in Special Education at Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, in 2001. His research interests are on educating the Deaf, rehabilitation counseling and social issues