Instructors of People with Disabilities
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
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 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $18.00
- Median
- $29.00
- Maximum
- $35.00
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 86.3% Female
- 13.7% Male
- 86.3% Female
- 13.7% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
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 6141% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 62333% of jobs
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NAICS 62422% of jobs
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NAICS 812% 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 6141% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 62333% of jobs
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NAICS 62422% of jobs
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NAICS 812% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
College
DCS in special Care Counselling 
Placement rate: 80%
17.2% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in techniques d'éducation spécialisée
Placement rate: 82.6%
6.5% of graduates pursue further studies
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
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Data collection
- Reading comprehension
- Oral expression
- Social perception
- Result evaluation
- Written expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Learning strategies
- Active learning
- Critical thought
- Time management
- Information processing
- Coordination
- Persuasion
- Systems evaluation
- Solving complex problems
- System analysis
- Human resource management
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Oral comprehension
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Information organization
- Originality
- Inductive reasoning
- Idea generation
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Overall coordination of the body
- Hand-arm stability
- Limb coordination
- Endurance
- Core strength
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Perseverance
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Rigour
- Capacity for synthesis
- Friendliness
- Respect others
- Sense of observation
- Pedagogical knowledge
- Open-mindedness
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Create, design
- 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.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 4215 (42203)
Instructors of persons with disabilities
Job titles
- Instructor of persons with special needs
- Instructor of persons with a learning disability
- Instructor of persons with developmental disabilities
- Instructor of persons with intellectual disabilities
- Instructor of persons with disabilities
- Lip-reading teacher
- Sign language teacher
- Orientation and mobility instructor
- Orientation and mobility teacher for persons who are blind
- Rehabilitation teacher
- Rehabilitation teacher for persons who are blind
- Instructor of persons who are blind
- Teacher of persons with developmental disabilities
- 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
- Braille teacher
- Sign language instructor
- Job coach for persons with disabilities
- Special programs instructor for persons with disabilities
- Finger-spelling teacher
- Lip-reading instructor
- Orientation and mobility instructor for persons with a visual impairment
- Rehabilitation instructor for persons who are blind
- Teacher for persons with autism
- Teacher of persons with a visual impairment
- Teacher of persons with a mobility impairment
- Teacher of persons who are hearing impaired
- Teacher of persons who are deaf
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: April 28, 2023
