Recognition and investigation the status of people with special needs tendency and access to voluntary activity opportunities in Mashhad-Iran Case Study: Educational complex rehabilitation charity

Abstract

In this research, we try to investigate the tendency and access to voluntary activity opportunities through a case study of the Rehabilitation Charity Complex in Mashhad with the aim of identifying barriers to access to voluntary activity opportunities among people with special needs aged from 15 to 40 of the educational complex rehabilitation charity in Mashhad. The approach of the present study is qualitative- quantitative integration method and for data collection we used in-depth individual interview with 15 people have special needs and researcher-made questionnaire based on theories, previous research and qualitative paradigm model of present study. Sample selection in the qualitative section is the snowball method and in the quantitative section is all the members aged from 15 to 40 of complex rehabilitation charity in Mashhad-Iran. The number of respondents is 137. In this research, after extracting the categories from the field of study, we looked at a statistic of personality and demographic characteristics, access status in urban space and public transport system, the performance of government officials and institution and media, economic conditions, access to course content suitable and educational facilities and the negative attitudes of the community. The results show that income level, economic conditions, access status in urban space, access to course content suitable and educational facilities and the negative attitudes of the community is affect the status of people with special needs tendency and access to voluntary activity opportunities.

Keywords

• voluntary activity
• tendency
• access
• economic