What is vocational rehabilitation?

Abstract: Speaker explains the purpose of vocational rehabilitation (VR), a system to help people with disabilities either integrate into the workforce or return back to work after a significant injury. Each state in the United States has a VR program which creates a vocational plan and provides services and programs to help individuals obtain and retain competitive, gainful employment. Run time: 34 seconds.
NARIC Accession Number: O19982. What's this?
Author(s): Fraser, Robert.
Project Number: 90DP0012 (formerly H133A110004).
Publisher(s): Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), American Institutes for Research, 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20007; 202/403-6929.
Descriptor Terms: AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS, BRAIN INJURIES, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS, EMPLOYMENT REENTRY, EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS, OUTCOMES, REHABILITATION SERVICES, VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES.