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Vocational rehabilitation, also abbreviated VR or voc rehab, is a process which enables persons with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities, impairments or health disabilities to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining, or returning to employment or other useful occupations.
Supported employment was developed in the United States in the 1970s as part of both vocational rehabilitation (VR) services (e.g., NYS Office of Vocational Services, 1978) and the advocacy for long term services and supports (LTSS) for individuals with significant disabilities in competitive job placements in integrated settings (e.g., businesses, offices, manufacturing facilities).
The Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) was a Texas state agency that was part of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The agency worked with Texans with disabilities and children with developmental delays to improve the quality of their lives and to enable their full participation in society.
Moving to our enhanced rehabilitation programs, we currently deliver in-custody rehabilitation to an average daily population of approximately 2,700 individuals at 38 in-prison program sites ...
[56] [57] To these employers, hiring people with disabilities became too expensive as they had to spend extra on assistive technology. In 2001, for men of all working ages and women under 40, Current Population Survey data showed a sharp drop in the employment of disabled workers, leading at least two economists to attribute the cause to the ...
Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 3: 133-134. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018). Jorgensen Smith, Tammy, Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga, and Chip Kenney. 2015. "Integrating customized employment practices within the vocational rehabilitation system." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 42, no. 3: 201-208.