Selective placement for the handicapped : information for the placement of disabled applicants in competitive employment / War Manpower Commission, United States Employment Service.

Date:
1945
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Credit: Selective placement for the handicapped : information for the placement of disabled applicants in competitive employment / War Manpower Commission, United States Employment Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9. If an applicant refuses some par- ticular kind of work or expresses a definite preference, the existence of some handicap may be indicated. A request for occupational reclassi- fication may also be due to a handicap. intellectual capacity may be doing so because of a handicap, such as arrested pulmonary TB, hearing im- pairment, etc., or mental disorder. con items represent ditions which may be considered a *01 *02 *03 04 *10 *11 m12 13 Arm, hand, finger Arm, amputation, congenital absence, or impairment of functions of one arm (either at, above, elbow). ; Both arms, amputation, congenital absence, or impairment of functions. Finger disabilities; amputation, con- genital absence, or disablement of one thumb and/or three or four of the remaining fingers. Finger disabilities; amputation, con- genital absence, or disablement of one or more but less than three fingers or parts thereof. Eye Total blindness in one eye. Vision normal with or without correction in the other. Defective vision (20/70 up to, but not including, 20/200 in the better eye with correction; vision normal with correction from 20/200 or worse). Blind as determined by the State vo- eational rehabilitation agency serv- ing the blind. Hye conditions not affecting visual acuity (ptosis, chronic conjunctivitis, etc.). 659270°—45——_2 *20 #21 *22 *30 *31 33 34 *40 *41 *43 44 *45 -46 47 48 *50 *51 #52 53 60 1] Hearing Hard of hearing (partial loss of hearing). Deaf (total loss of hearing before speech was learned—include oralists and those depending on sign lan- guage). Deafened (total loss of hearing after speech has been learned). Heart and blood Heart disease. Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the ” arteries); high-blood pressure. Varicose veins. Other vascular disabilities (throm- boangiitis without amputations, phle- bitis, ete.). Miscellaneous blood diseases (leuke- mia, hemophilia, venereal diseases, ete.). Leg, foot Amputation or congenital absence of a leg at or above knee (fitted with artificial leg). Amputation or congenital absence of a leg below the knee (fitted with artificial leg or foot). Disablement of both legs, with no crutches. Leg disabilities or amputations with erutches used. Disablement of one leg or any part of it. ; Amputations without artificial leg or crutches. Amputation below ankle, with. arti- ficial foot. (Include toe amputa- tions. ) Flat feet or fallen arches. Arm and leg disabilities. Respiratory Pulmonary tuberculosis. Silicosis. Asthma. Other respiratory diseases. Speech Speech defects. spastics. ) (Do not include