The Preparedness of Sub-district Administrative Organization (SAO) for Development of Quality of Life of Persons with disabilities in Chonburi Province

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2011-03-11
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Journal of Ratchasuda College for Research and Development of Persons with Disabilities
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          The objectives for this research were to study on the preparedness of Sub-district Administrative Organization (SAO) in term of the quality of life development for Persons with Disabilities including study on the relationship between the preparedness and the implementation of SAO. The population of this research was the chairman of SAO or the authorized representative from 58 SAOs in Chonburi province. The questionnaire was used as a tool of this research to conduct the data.          The results indicated that; the preparedness of SAOs in Chonburi province for the quality of life development for Persons with  Disabilities in the issues of knowledge, crippled database, quality of life development plan for Persons with  Disabilities in local level, human resources, budget including collaboration with other organization or alliances which related to Persons with  Disabilities and could be classify into 3 levels (high, moderate, and low) was in high and moderate level of all preparedness issues. As the 5 issues of SAO implementation part which were medical, education, social, occupation, and building including facilities for Persons with Disabilities indicated that, the SAOs in Chonburi province was in moderate and low level.              The result of the relationship between the preparedness and the implementation of SAO presented that the issues of Persons with  Disabilities database and quality of life development plan for Persons with  Disabilities in local level in SAO properness part was related to SAO implementation in all issues. And the issues of budget and collaboration with other organization or alliances were related to only 4 issues of SAO implementation. However, there was no relationship between the knowledge in part of SAO preparedness and all 5 issues of SAO implementation.
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Journal of Ratchasuda College for Research and Development of Persons with Disabilities; Vol.6 No.2 July-December 2010; 47-58