The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to assess client satisfaction with rehabilitation services and to identify correlates of client satisfaction. The first phase involved the development of the instrument, the Scale of Client Satisfaction. Subjects were 483 culturally and medically handicapped rehabilitates. In the second phase data…

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the feasibility of conceptualizing rehabilitation gain as a single scalable variable. Twenty-seven items from the Wood County Project Test Battery which reflected rehabilitation gain were incorporated into a scale. Items sampled weekly earning, dependency on public assistance, work status, amount of…

A 20-item scale to measure the rehabilitation gain of vocational rehabilitation clients was constructed to produce a criterion of rehabilitation outcome capable of reflecting the degree of client change. Handicap type, age, marital status, employment record, tenure of disabling condition, and intellectual ability were significant correlates of…

The University of Wisconsin Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute, in their development of criteria for evaluating RCE programs, compared the perceptions of three groups of rehabilitation professionals on the importance of RCE curriculum content areas. It concludes that it is possible to obtain a consensus of the relevancy of RCE program…

The measurement of client change attributable to the receipt of vocational rehabilitation services has been limited to the simple criterion of employed-unemployed or to subjective evaluations. The authors discuss alternative statistical and methodological strategies for the use in measuring client gain. (Author)

Through an analytic technique this monograph studies the economic impact of the ratio of benefits to costs of the vocational rehabilitation process. The primary purpose of the research was to compare the relative value of the rehabilitation for the culturally disadvantaged to that of the medically disabled by benefit-cost analysis. The results of…

Benefit-cost analysis was used in this study to compare the relative value of rehabilitation for the culturally disadvantaged to that of the medically disabled. The Wood County Project, which was designed to demonstrate the potential benefits of extending services to all handicapped persons, was evaluated in terms of the impact on clients, the…