Emotional Intelligence as an Educational Strategy for Improving Employability Disabled People|Juniper Publishers | Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

Emotional Intelligence as an Educational Strategy for Improving Employability Disabled People


Authored by Maria del Carmen Ortega-Navas

The need to acquire, develop and update the competences of people with disabilities is strengthened, one of them, being Emotional Intelligence (IE here in after) as an educational, which will translate into a better qualification in the current demands on access to the labor market for people with disabilities. In fact, today, the globalization, the liberalization of markets, and the fall of trade and technological gates have made it necessary for students to increasingly strengthen their solid training at different levels: theoretical, practical and emotional.

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