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How We Do It: Our Federal Government’s Program To Help the Handicapped Help Themselves
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| 8 | The social and economic significance of vocational rehabilitation should not be underestimated. As a result of this service, handicapped persons become producers and not dependents, disabled individuals are transformed from public, liabilities to civic assets, skilled workers are returned to industry, and the family life of the disabled worker is reestablished. Vocational rehabilitation of an individual is effected at an average cost of $300. It costs $300 a year to maintain a dependent person expense. The average age of rehabilitated persons is 32 years. At this age the average life expectance is 30 years. In many instances the rehabilitated person earns more the first year after rehabilitation than the total cost of rehabilitation. | |
| 9 | "Milton, the Blind, who looked on Paradise, Beethoven, the Deaf, who heard vast harmonies, Byron, the Lame, who climbed toward Alpine Skies,-- | |
| 10 | Who pleads a handicap, remembering these?" | |