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Handicapped Workers. Commission Fees Paid to Central Nonprofit Agencies. Briefing Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Employment and Housing, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1986
Matters related to commission fees paid to the National Industries for the Blind (NIB) and to the National Industries for the Severely Handicapped (NISH) were reviewed. These fees were paid by sheltered workshops that employed blind or other severely handicapped individuals and produced goods and services under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act. The…
Descriptors: Blindness, Career Education, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Group Homes for Severely Multiply Handicapped Persons with Visual Problems.
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Guldager, Lars; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1983
Community residences for small groups of people and day activity programs designed to increase functional levels for severely multiply handicapped persons with visual problems, are proposed as the only viable, humane alternative to institutionalization. Sources of funding for these goup home and day activity programs, which cost the same as…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Blindness, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills