Study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals : Letter from Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transmitting a report on a study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals, with recommendations, pursuant to Public Law 565, 83d Congress.
- United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration
- Date:
- 1955
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals : Letter from Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transmitting a report on a study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals, with recommendations, pursuant to Public Law 565, 83d Congress. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Since this recommendation was made, the following significant actions have taken place: 1. A program of support of training of personnel in a number of professional fields contributing to rehabilitation services has been initiated by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, under authority of the broadened Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1954, and grants have been made to universities to enable them to expand and improve such training. ‘Traineeships are being awarded to promising indi- viduals to enable them to secure necessary training. 2. The National Institutes of Health of the Public Health Service has increased its support of training of physicians in rehabilitation.” 3. Conferences of governmental and voluntary agencies on man- power shortages of medical social workers, occupational therapists, and physical therapists, called by the National Foundation for Infan- tile Paralysis were held in 1952.%8 °° * 4. The grants program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to increase the number of trained personnel in rehabilitation and its scholarship programs for basic training of rehabilitation per- sonnel have been increased.*! 5. A basic scholarship program in physical and occupational therapy has been started by the United Cerebral Palsy Association.” 6. The scholarship training programs of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults for rehabilitation counselors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, and personnel working in the field of cerebral palsy cosponsored with Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Delta Phi, and the American Speech and Hearing Association have been increased. 7. A recruitment program for all types of health personnel including rehabilitation workers has been initiated by the National Health Council.® 8. The Health Resources Advisory Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization has recently (December 1954) established a subcommittee to undertake the study of personnel shortages in rehabilitation recommended by the Task Force on the Handicapped. PSYCHOSOCIAL SERVICES SUMMARY Any constructive program of services for the homebound physically handicapped should take full account of the need for individual motivation and social opportunity, since these factors frequently determine whether other available services 37 According to the statement of Dr. Pearce Bailey, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, at the hearing of the House Committee on Interstate ‘and Foreign Commerce, October 7, 1953, 83d Cong., ist sess., on the Causes, Control, and Remedies of the Principal Diseases of Mankind, pt. 4, p. 965, 20 trainees are currently being assisted in securing advanced training in the clinical and rehabilitative aspects of neurological and sensory disorders. ‘‘An additional 20 highly qualified indi- viduals could be placed [in advanced training] immediately [if funds were available].’’ 38 U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Manpower Source Book, sec. 3, Medical Social Workers, PHS publication, No. 263, August 1953. 39 Potential Increase of Occupational Therapists Based on Data Supplied by Twenty-Five Occupational Therapy Schools (corrected), January 1953, mimeographed. 40 Report of a Survey of Physical Therapy Schools, January 1953, mimeographed. 41 Report of the Division of Professional Education to the Advisory Committees on Education and Research, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, op. cit. 42 Press release, United Cerebral Palsy, May 11, 1954, mimeographed. ps Aaa a Health Careers; A National Report to Alert High Schools, Public Health Reports 69:10:945, ctober 1954 59134—55——4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32173593_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
