Vocational rehabilitation centers need to improve both client evaluation by upgrading the role of the work evaluator and work adjustment programs with specified goals to be achieved by each individual client. (Author/AG)

Discusses major potential trends in rehabilitation (identified through informal interviews with 94 individuals representing various organizations, progessions, or programs) e.g., services for the severely handicapped, return to the vocational emphasis, increased interagency cooperation, and consumer involvement. Modification of programs as a…

Describes activities in the development of the project, Home-based Employment to Accomplish Rehabilitation (HEAR). This description is intended to serve as a guideline for replicating similar programs with any group of homebound individuals. Project objectives, effect of home-based employment, guidelines, and enhancing professionalism are topics…

Special provisions are made for handicapped students in terms of curriculum and elimination of structural barriers in order to facilitate their preparation for a profession through a college education. Program has served as a successful precedent for other educational institutions. (TA)

The Michigan Youth Service Personnel, the men at Wurtsmith Air Force Base, and the residents around Oscoda, Michigan, implemented and carried out an exemplary youth camping program dedicated to helping troubled boys achieve a far brighter future than would ordinarily be expected. The program was evaluated by Florida Technological University.…

Discusses some of the findings of 10 regional studies (funded by the Rehabilitation Services Administration) as they relate to future rehabilitation program evaluation efforts under the following topics: Penetration rates, determining process effectiveness, and determining impact. Placement suitability, sustention of client benefits, and consumer…

Reviews the history, development, implementation, and impact of the Model State Plan (MSP) for vocational rehabilitation of deaf clients. (TA)

The authors have presented a general framework for project proposal assessment which will be of practical use to proposal writers and reviewers. Each of the four main components (plan of action, resources, implementation power, and potential contribution) is assessed separately and given a weighted score. (Author/EA)

Focuses on (1) some steps that President Carter and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW) have taken to serve handicapped Americans, (2) new efforts that are underway in DHEW, such as closed captioning for the deaf, and (3) future effectiveness of rehabilitation programs in light of inflated expenses for health and hospital care.…

Discusses background of the work adjustment program for disabled clients, job placement, work and work habits, the relationship of vocational evaluation and work adjustment, job seeking and retention skills. (TA)

The Rehabilitation Counselor Education (RCE) Program at The University of Tennessee includes an educational-service component known as the Counselor-Teacher Unit in which the counselor/teacher performs a dual professional role as a counselor with State-Federal programs and as a lecturer at the University. (Author/BP)

Discusses issues illustrating the development of adjustment services within the field of rehabilitation and issues emphasizing some of the problem areas. Topics include the vocational rehabilitation process, adjustment services as a profession, eligibility for services, training of personnel, and specialty areas in adjustment services.…