The percentage of North Americans who have one or more physical disabilities continues to rise. Specifically, the percentage of people with ambulatory disabilities, cognitive disabilities, and other health impairments is increasing every year. This phenomenon calls for pragmatic measures to help provide better transition and related services to…

The author writes of her personal experience as a resident at the Good Shepherd Home and Rehabilitation Center. (RD)

Practices in patient education for spinal cord injured persons in 10 hospital rehabilitation centers were examined. Surveys revealed that a majority of the centers conducted patient education (designed to provide facts about the injury as well as psychological support). Findings revealed a large number of staff involved, but a wide difference in…

Sample of 75 occupational therapists working with physically disabled adults in rehabilitation facilities completed the Independent Living Skills (ILS) Training Questionnaire. Results showed an average of 14 percent of treatment time spent on ILS training, considered a low amount by a panel of experts. It was suggested that community-based…

The physically disabled need to be assimilated into the mainstream of society, thereby enabling them to reject the environmental forces that have traditionally kept them psychologically isolated. Although rehabilitation centers may be the right places for the severely disabled to gain information that can augment that assimilation, they project a…

Rehabilitation caseload feasibility in an expanded vocational rehabilitation program was the focus of this study. The general purpose was to investigate the possibility of expanding services to include a wider range of vocationally handicapped persons without lowering the feasibility level of the agency caseload. Two groups of clients received…

The objective of this project was to develop a center for the employment of severely disabled and older workers in a competitive industrial environment. Patterned after a similar center in the state of New York, Abilities Inc. of Florida adopted the specific purposes of: (1) providing a continuing basis of employment for severely disabled and…

This research investigated the capacity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to differentiate multi-disabled persons who had become successfully rehabilitated from those who had not. It was expected that the overall MMPI profile of unsuccessful rehabilitants would reflect a greater degree of psychological maladjustment than…

TWENTY EIGHT STATE INSTITUTIONS AND THIRTEEN COUNTY INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY ILL AND TUBERCULAR WHICH RECEIVE 50 PERCENT OF THEIR SUPPORT FROM THE STATE ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SURVEY OF INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES. DATA COLLECTED FROM FIELD VISITS AND QUESTIONNAIRES ON LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, PERSONNEL, PHYSICAL FACILITIES, SERVICES AND BUDGET FOR…

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…

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)

The purpose of this study was to identify the major characteristics of postpolio syndrome (PPS), investigate physical and psychological limitations, and comprehensively review current medical interventions through a single subject design. The study addresses the symptoms and characteristics, the effect on life style, and the current recommended…