In order to more accurately and realistically assess the severely handicapped individual's vocational potential, a study of 92 severely handicapped high school students who participated in a pioneer goodwill program was undertaken. (PHR)

A 6-month study was conducted of Illinois job training, rehabilitation, and vocational education programs serving handicapped persons by the Illinois Vocational Education Task Force. From a list sent to 225 vocational and special education directors, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act prime sponsors, and rehabilitation services officers,…

A directory of federal and state programs to help the handicapped find employment, this booklet also describes programs for the able-bodied. Contents included are (1) programs for people who need additional education, rehabilitation, or training before they can get a job, (2) programs for those who need a job and for communities that need to…

The document is a basic guide for planning and organizing a sheltered workshop, a work-oriented rehabilitation facility with a controlled working environment and individual vocational goals. The workshop utilizes work experience and related services to help the mentally retarded person progress toward normal living and a productive vocational…

Twenty mentally retarded individuals placed in competitive employment were compared to a matched group in sheltered workshop settings concerning their quality of life. The competitively employed individuals experienced greater advancement; improved hand strength and weight control; and increased community participation, social vocational skills,…

Results for three years of inservice training provided to managers and direct care personnel employed in community, residential, and vocational programs for developmentally disabled/mentally retarded and adults are reported. It is concluded that training was successful, since 1,015 of 1,080 training objectives were completed by trainees at…

The proceedings include five papers from a seminar designed to train rehabilitation personnel in the procedures, theories, and aims of work evaluation. Morton H. Bregman discusses the use of vocational evaluation in the counseling process; Henry Cobb describes methods of predicting vocational adjustment in the mentally retarded; and John Campbell…

The work of six citizen task forces in comprehensive planning for vocational rehabilitation in one region in Ohio is described. Their combined findings are summarized and recommendations presented in the areas of facilities and programs, personnel, coordination, public information, and finance. The regional study plan is defined in terms of its…

The discussion of a series of questions with case illustrations delineates the problems and possibilities of helping retarded adults become valuable, productive members of society. Among topics considered are the definition of retarded adults in the community, the need for concern, and community evaluation and needs of the retarded adult. Also…

Recent selected literature on problems encountered by the disabled worker aged 55 years and over is reviewed. Aspects considered include the background to and nature of the problem; displacement, unemployment, and retirement; pension problems; legislation; capacities of the older disabled worker; expanding vocational opportunities for the older…

To provide preventive treatment, counselors from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) worked through a school project to serve adolescents with disabilities which might make job adjustment difficult. During the 5-year project, over 5,000 adolescents were referred; 1,800 or 40% of whom were in the school project; more than 1,000 or 55%…

This study was designed to assist vocational rehabilitation agencies serving blind and visually impaired persons to identify client characteristics and agency factors and resources associated with the following four client employment outcomes: competitive employment, sheltered workshop employment, homemaking, and non-working. For the study, 469…

Four state-of-the-art reports were prepared and disseminated in both printed and audio cassette forms to summarize the available knowledge in four areas of concern in the field of rehabilitation. Based on the recommendations of a consumer panel composed mainly of representatives from the intended audience, the topics of the reports and the authors…

THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO INCREASE PARENT PARTICIPATION IN THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS, TO DEVELOP METHODS OF MOTIVATING PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE, AND TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT PARTICIPATION AND THE RETARDATE'S VOCATIONAL ADJUSTMENT. DURING THE FIRST YEAR,…

A longitudinal program of workshop-centered rehabilitation services was administered to mentally retarded adolescents. Results with the 36 remaining at the end of the 3rd year indicated that most characteristics central to vocational development were stable by early adolesence; a "competence cluster" of variables covaried systematically; high and…