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Instructors of People with Disabilities

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  • Job description
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2022-2026
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

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

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
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Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2021

All of Québec

16,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
86.3% Female
13.7% Male

Not available.
  • 86.3% Female
  • 13.7% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$52,000

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

Not available.
  1. Educational Services
    NAICS 61
    41% of jobs
  2. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    33% of jobs
  3. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    22% of jobs
  4. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    2% of jobs
  5. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    1% of jobs
  6. Others
    1% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Educational Services
    NAICS 61
    41% of jobs
  2. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    33% of jobs
  3. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    22% of jobs
  4. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    2% of jobs
  5. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    1% of jobs
  6. Others
    1% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

College

ACS in Éducation spécialisée This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JNC18
DCS in special Care Counselling This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 351A0

Placement rate: 80%

17.2% of graduates pursue further studies

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ACS in techniques d'éducation spécialisée This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JNC13

Placement rate: 82.6%

6.5% of graduates pursue further studies

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DCS in techniques d'éducation spécialisée (Nouvelle version) This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 351A1
ACS in techniques en éducation spécialisée This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JNC1E

University

Psychoeducation
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 33.3%

64.5% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 91%

4.5% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University
Specialized teaching in special education
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 89.9%

6.4% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 92.5%

1.9% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Université du Québec à Rimouski
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université Laval

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
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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
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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.
Additional information

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
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Skill type

Education, law and social, community and government services

Related occupations

  • Audiologists and speech-language pathologists
  • Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants
  • Elementary school and kindergarten teachers
  • Occupational therapists
  • Secondary school teachers
  • Social and community service workers

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: April 28, 2023

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