Instructors of People with Disabilities
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Job description
These individuals work with people who are experiencing adjustment difficulties. They use a variety of techniques to facilitate communication and rehabilitation. Their interventions also seek to develop social skills and autonomy. They work in:
- Hospitals
- Rehabilitation centres
- Residential and long-term care centres (CHSLDs)
- Local community service centres (CLSCs)
- Integrated Health and Social Services Centres (CISSS) offering protection and rehabilitation services to troubled youth and their families.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Violence
Main tasks
- Develop individualized teaching and intervention plans for people with physical, intellectual, visual, or hearing disabilities.
- Assess people’s physical limitations, orientation abilities, and mobility as well as the cognitive, social, and emotional barriers they encounter.
- Help people acquire practical skills.
- Teach people with physical disabilities and their families to apply rehabilitation techniques and to use prosthetics and wheelchairs.
- Teach visually impaired people to read and write in Braille and to use special aids or equipment (guide animals, long canes, etc.).
- Teach people who are hard of hearing or deaf to read lips, use sign language, and make sounds using hearing aids.
- Collaborate with other specialists (rehabilitation counsellors, speech therapists, occupational therapists, etc.).
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $24.00
- Median
- $31.50
- Maximum
- $35.87
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 87.8% Female
- 12.2% Male
- 87.8% Female
- 12.2% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 6158% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 62326% of jobs
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NAICS 62413% of jobs
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NAICS 811% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
All of Québec
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NAICS 6158% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 62326% of jobs
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NAICS 62413% of jobs
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NAICS 811% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
ACS in Éducation spécialisée
Placement rate: 91.7%
DCS in techniques d'éducation spécialisée
Placement rate: 79.7%
17.5% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in techniques d'éducation spécialisée
Placement rate: 93%
3.5% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in techniques en éducation spécialisée
Placement rate: 92%
University
Psychoeducation
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 33.3%
64.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 91%
4.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Specialized teaching in special education
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 89.9%
6.4% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 92.5%
1.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Training in psychoeducation or a related field (social work, psychology, etc.) may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Active listening
- Service oriented
- Teaching
- Data collection
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Critical thought
- Social perception
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Written expression
- Learning strategies
- Active learning
- Time management
- Information processing
- Coordination
- Persuasion
- Systems evaluation
- Solving complex problems
- System analysis
- Human resource management
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Oral comprehension
- Written comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Originality
- Written expression
- Idea generation
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Information organization
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Overall coordination of the body
- Hand-arm stability
- Limb coordination
- Core strength
- Endurance
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Perseverance
- Capacity to adapt
- Rigour
- Creativity
- Friendliness
- Respect others
- Sense of observation
- Open-mindedness
- Knowledge of psychology
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Create, design
- Self-employment
- Assist and advise
- Teach or educate
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 42203
Instructors of persons with disabilities
Job titles
- Rehabilitation Teachers
- Orientation and mobility teacher for persons who are blind
- Rehabilitation teacher for persons who are blind
- Instructor of persons who are blind
- Teacher of persons with developmental disabilities
- Instructor of persons with a learning disability
- Teacher for persons with intellectual disabilities
- Instructor of persons with a mobility impairment
- Instructor of persons who are hard of hearing
- Instructor of persons who are deaf
- Orientation and mobility instructor
- Lip-reading teacher
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: January 29, 2026