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Article: Trends in vocational rehabilitation: 1978, 1988, 1998.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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This article examines consistencies and changes across a 20-year period in the public vocational rehabilitation program in the United States. The findings can be instructive, not only to the clients, counselors, and managers in the State-Federal program, but also to the consumers and rehabilitation professionals in a variety of other programs (e.g., mental health, independent living, home health, community rehabilitation, and one-stop centers in the Workforce Investment Act programs). A private rehabilitation program, for example, may find that the demographic composition of clientele has mirrored the State-Federal program, that their costs for services have exceeded those ...