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THE PROGRAM
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BOSWELL B. HODGKIN I
Superintendent of Public Instruction ;

ISSUED MONTHLY

Entered as second-class matter March 21, 1933, at the post office at
Frankfort, Kentucky, under the Act of August 24, 1912.

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FOREWORD

A very signiﬁcant educational service is rendered by the Kentucky
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; however, the public knows very
little about its activities. This service is designed to meet the needs of
disabled civilians, and hundreds of handicapped people are restored
and trained to enter useful and proﬁtable occupations each year.

Through disease, accidents on highways, in the mines and in the
mills, the number of disabled persons is increasing in our state each
day to a marked degree.

Vocational Rehabilitation is a good investment from an economic
point of view. It costs less to rehabilitate the average person than it
does to support him one year on a relief basis. It must be borne in
mind that rehabilitation is a non-recurring expense. It is a service
Which merits the whole hearted support of all Kentuckians when one
takes into consideration the social and educational gains, and the
Change which occurs in the disabled individual from a state of de-
pendence to an independent status.
’ BOSWELL .B. HODGKVIN
Superintendent Public Instruction

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INTRODUCTION

This bulletin presents in a very brief way Vocational Rehabilita-
tion in the state. The charts and graphs indicate certain trends and
accomplishments during the past year. Since the program of services
for the blind is in this division, appropriate consideration is given to
its activities.

As our state becomes more industrialized we shall be confronted
more and more, not only with problems of safety education, but an
intensive program of Vocational Rehabilitation services to the handi-
capped.

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Scepe and Function ...................................... 1018
Cooperative Agreements .................................. 1018
Expenditures and Needs .................................. 1018
Description of Tables ..................................... 1019
State Organization for Providing Rehabilitation Services ...... 1019
Graphs and Charts ..................................... 1020-25
Map Showing Rehabilitation Districts ...................... 1026
Purpose and Justiﬁcation for Rehabilitation Services .......... 1019
Counsel and Guidance .................................... 1019
Rehabilitation Does Pay .................................. 1027
Comparisons ............................................. 1028
State-Federal Support .................................... 1028

Rehabilitation Services for the Blind ........................ 1029

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 2::
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Scope and Function wrj

The State Board of Education of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, , the
in cooperation with the United States Government, provides Voca- ‘
tional Rehabilitation services for mentally and physically impaired Sta
individuals. Such services include vocational and college training, ‘
physical restoration, psychological and psychiatric services, ﬁtting of Of
prosthetic appliances, aptitude and intelligence testing, counselling, are
guidance and placement. All services are performed in order to b0]
prepare individuals for more remunerative employment in the occu- 311'
pation which they are best ﬁtted to earn a living. ter

During the ﬁscal year 1948—49, this division, through its local 0f
district Ofﬁces, was able to rehabilitate 859 persons in the state. These per
persons are now employed in remunerative work. This number is “‘1
slightly more than the number rehabilitated in the last year. For ‘ Fr
purposes of better administration, the state is divided into nine dis- (365
tricts. The district Ofﬁces are located in the following cities: Paducah, i
Harlan, Madisonville, Bowling Green, Louisville, Lexington, Somerset, ‘ in
Ashland and Covington. As a result of the district arrangement, every ye
county and community in the state is reached. m:

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It is one of the policies Of this division to have a number Of co- ‘ ar
operative agreements with local, state and federal agencies whereby
they make referrals of clients to Vocational Rehabilitation for services P1
available through this division. These cooperative agreements have .
proven to be an excellent plan since many more handicapped persons th
are found than would be otherwise. . eﬁ
Expenditures and Needs is

During the ﬁscal year 1948-49 the state and federal government . m
spent $151,544.12 for Vocational Rehabilitation services to the handi- V
capped in Kentucky. . se

‘The federal share of expenditures is considerably more than the . ﬂ
state share for the program of Vocational Rehabilitation in the state. ‘
Kentucky receives considerably less money from her legislature than C'
any bordering state for the rehabilitation of the handicapped. ,

The added services of physical restoration and services for the 1“
blind amply justify an increase in appropriation to carry out the total I 131
program of Vocational Rehabilitation. Hospital costs are considerably e1
more than they were during the last year. ti

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. Tables and charts shown on the following pages represent a
breakdown of the 859 cases rehabilitated last year according to various
categories as indicated on each table shown. It is the opinion of the
writer that a graphic presentation on various activities would tell
the facts about rehabilitation more effectively than descriptive detail.

State Organization for Providing Rehabilitation Services.

In order to better facilitate the administration of the program
of Vocational Rehabilitation, the state has been divided into nine (9)
areas as shown on page 1026 with the map and vocational district
boundaries. Each district is staffed with a secretary, a supervisor
and a case worker with the exception of two (2) districts that are
temporarily without supervisors at the present time. The advantage
of having district areas is that local Offices come closer to disabled
people out in the state wanting rehabilitation service. These dis-
trict offices are very closely connected with the central office at
Frankfort in the various procedures and techniques used in pro-
cessing cases for services.

Each district is responsible for the rehabilitation of the disabled
in the counties comprising that area. At the beginning of each fiscal
year districts are assigned quotas for the year and every effort is
made to reach the quota of rehabilitation cases assigned. Weekly
and monthly itineraries are sent in to the Frankfort office of the
activities in each district. Under this arrangement the disabled
are provided services more quickly and adequately.

Purpose and Justification for Rehabilitation Service

The number of persons in need of rehabilitation services is on
the increase. The accident rate continues to climb and the crippling
eifects of diseases such as poliomyelitis are on the increase.

The philosophy underlying such an endeavor of human welfare
is based on the theory that those handicapped by accident or disease
may be provided equal opportunities with others. It is the desire of
Vocational Rehabilitation to help disabled people become and remain
self—supporting in spite of their disability. In the process of doing
this rehabilitation uses many ways to accomplish its purpose.

Counsel and Guidance

The work of the vocational counselor is a highly specialized ﬁeld,
requiring a great deal of training and experience. He should know
the industrial opportunities of his area as well as keeping abreast of
employment trends. He must be successful in obtaining the coopera-
ti0n 0f handicapped persons, training facilities and the employer if

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the rehabilitation plan for the individual is to succeed. It is his
responsibility to interpret rehabilitation to the community in order
to maintain good working arrangements with other agencies.

Handicapped people have varying degrees of disabilities. Some
require more time and eifort on the part of the counselor than others.
This, of course, means each case must be served individually with
special consideration always to his disability, work history, personality
traits, economic resources, social and educational background. If the
disabled person is guided into the right job, he is no longer handi-
capped and is able to compete with normal individuals.

It is the opinion of many persons in the ﬁeld of Vocational
Rehabilitation that the service of guidance as it applies to rehabilita-
tion clients is the most significant of all rehabilitation beneﬁts. No
one will minimize the importance of proper counseling and especially
when it is applied to a disabled person. Being able to properly direct
individuals to the right job or training situation is one of the crown-
ing achievements of any rehabilitation process.

REHABILITATION DOES PAY

The majority of persons served by rehabilitation are unemployed
and many are recipients of charity, either public or private. Recent
studies have been made which indicates that it costs on the average
0f approximately eight (8) times as much to maintain a person on
charity as it does to rehabilitate him.

It can easily be shown that rehabilitation is a good business
Proposition if you will observe the table on page 1020 which gives the
Wage before rehabilitation and the wage after rehabilitation, along
with the cost of the service.

Of the 859 cases served last year by this division, the average
annual income before rehabilitation was $262.61 and after rehabilita-
tiOn was $1,229.20. After service clients were earning almost ﬁve times
as much as before.

The average cost as shown is $176.20, which in majority of cases
is a non-recurring item.

If ﬁgures were assembled for several years, the total amounts,
Of course, would run much higher.

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COMPARISONS

In order that the reader may have the proper appreciation of the 011
work of this year, it is well to submit past years for comparative study. i%;1}:ﬁi
Years Number Rehabilitated

1941 300 Service
1942 494
1943 2106 P
1944 p 2131
1945 2418 P
1946 1510 h
1947 894
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1949 859 t
We are not reaching all the handicapped of the state in spite of E
the fact our program of service is almost twice what it was in 1942. 6
The war years caused us to accelerate our methods and abbreviate v
procedures whereby many of those people who had placement service s
only in temporary war jobs are coming back for a more thorough type 1

of rehabilitation service.

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Most of the services provided during the years 1943, 1944, and
1945 were placement in war industries or jobs indirectly affected as
a result of the war. The service at present is more intensive and
detailed which accounts for the decrease in the total annual number
of cases served.

STATE-FEDERAL SUPPORT

The entire cost of administration including salaries and travel
of personnel is paid by the federal government. Certain other costs
such as transportation for diagnosis to determine eligibility are
borne by the federal government. The service to war disabled
persons is paid from federal funds. All other expenditures to dis-

abled persons are paid on a 50-50 basis by state and federal govern‘
ment.

In Kentucky funds expended for rehabilitation purposes are ap-

proximately thirty (30) percent state and seventy (70) percent
federal.

There is probably no more liberal matching arrangement found
in any of the grant-in-aid programs now in operation.

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REHABILITATION SERVICES FOR THE BLIND

One section of the division is devoted to rehabilitation services
to the blind. During the biennium 1947-49 this section rehabilitated ,
107 blind persons. 1i

Services Rendered The 107 Blind Rehabilitants:

Physical Restoration

Twenty-ﬁve of the 107 persons were provided one or more
physical restoration services which include treatment, surgery,
hospitalization and artiﬁcial appliances, including glasses.

Of this number, the services attempted to improve the sight
of twenty with the following success: nine had improvement to
the point that they are no longer considered blind and now have ‘
vision ranging from 20/20 to 20/180; nine had substantial im- ‘3
provement which enabled them to accept employment; and two l
did not have any improvement. Of the remaining ﬁve, three i
were hard of hearing and received hearing aids, and two had ‘1,
surgery resulting in physical improvement permitting them to 1";
be employed. “1

Training
Forty-three of the 107 persons received training either in
school, on-the-job or in the shop.

Maintenance

Fourteen of the 43 trainees were provided room and board
while undergoing training.

Training Supplies
Five of the 43 trainees were provided training supplies.

Placement Equipment ‘
Fourteen of the 107 were provided the necessary occupa— j
tional tools and equipment. 1

Business Enterprises Equipment
Six of the 107 were provided equipment and set up in small
supervised businesses.

Placement
Forty-four of the 107 were directly placed in employment
by personnel of the agency. " ' 1.; :1 i ' 1?

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Other Data Concerning the 107 Blind Rehabilitants for the Biennium:
The average weekly earnings per person before rehabilita-
tion services—$3.67.
The average weekly earnings per person after rehabilitation
services—$27 .72.
Annual earnings of the group after rehabilitation services——
$149,916.00.

' Cost of rehabilitation provided the 107 rehabilitants—
$19,196.00 ( a non-recurring expenditure). Average cost per
person—$179.00.

Thirteen of the 107 were, before rehabilitation, recipients
of public assistance in the amount of $3,666.00, a recurring
expenditure.

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