SEVEN miles from Aberdeen, on the lovely road to Braemar, lies the Newton Dee Estate, recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped. There is a fundamental difference between it and most other "sheltered workshops," for it is a social experiment, and all who are there not only share the working life, but live together as a really integrated village co...

This study investigated whether sheltered workshops help prepare individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for competitive employment within the community. Two groups of individuals were compared: (a) 215 supported employees who were in sheltered workshops prior to entering supported employment and (b) 215 supported employees who were not in sheltered workshops. Individuals from both grou...

as alterations to the patient's home. While medical rehabilitation is primarily the responsibility of the hospital team, many other people may be involved-in particular, the patient's general practitioner and the staff of voluntary organizations, local authorities, and Ministry of Health limb-fitting and appliance centres. The object of industrial rehabilitation is to find jobs for disabled wor...

European Journal of NeurologyVolume 30, Issue S1 p. 17-35 Focused WorkshopsFree Access Workshops First published: 28 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15946AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the W...

This volume contains the proceedings of four workshops organized in connection with CAiSE'03, the 15 th instance in the series of Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. The workshops tradition has always been very active in CAiSE, the aim of workshops being to debate traditional topics in specialized sectors related to advanced information systems engineering, as well as promo...

ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...