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Hunter, Patricia N.; Zuger, Rosalind R. – Personnel Journal, 1979
From tours and seminars at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center, employers make first-hand contact with physically disabled persons, recognize the rehabilitation process as analogous to the concept of management by objectives, and learn that there is little correlation between disability and vocational…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Management by Objectives
Baker, B. Kimball – Worklife, 1976
Programs have been developed in rehabilitation facilities throughout the country for hiring and training unemployed, underemployed, and handicapped workers. The Association of Rehabilitation Facilities and The Departments of Labor and HEW are sponsors. On the job and classroom training is for entry-level positions and upgraded jobs. (LH)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Programs, Labor Utilization, National Programs
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McEwen, Jan – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1976
This article discusses a comprehensive community service delivery system, The Center for Independent Living (CIL), for the severely disabled in which services are geared toward independent living and consciousness raising. Self-help and peer counseling are seen as major methods of service assistance. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Community Services, Daily Living Skills, Peer Counseling
Capital Area Rehabilitation Center, Austin, TX. – 1980
The document contains the final report of a model project to provide a therapeutically based educational program for severely handicapped, orthopedically impaired children (6 to 21 years old) utilizing the skills of teachers, aides, therapists, and a nurse to provide individualized hands on services. Section I contains an overview of the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification, Individualized Education Programs
LeBlanc, Maurice A. – 1981
The Rehabilitation Engineering Center (Palo Alto, California) has developed a wide range of patient services which provide assistance to the disabled community in northern California and various research activities which have had impact on the disabled population nationally. The Center has three philosophical goals: to assist each child toward as…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Congenital Impairments, Disabilities, Human Factors Engineering