BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a supported employment programme on measures of executive functions for 44 adults with autism, assessed at the beginning and the end of the programme period. The average length of time of the community employment was 30 months. METHODS Based on their predominant work activity over the study period, participants were classified...

This study explored the factors that influence the perceived complexity of vocational rehabilitation tasks and the abilities of workplace supervisors and rehabilitating employees to carry out rehabilitation in the workplace. The research project was designed to explore whether there was a difference between the perceived complexity of 31 vocationally related rehabilitation tasks as understood b...

Bince 1966 the Social Becurity Administration has reimbursed State vocational rehabilitation UgenCieS for services to certain severely disabled beneficiaries. TAis report presents demographic, disability, and earnings information on diaabledworker benejiciaries w-ho were rehabilitated in fiscal l/ear 1969. About one-third of all rehabilitated beneficiaries left the 8ociul security benefit rolls...

BACKGROUND Change of job could be a strategy in vocational rehabilitation when return to the original job is not possible, but research is very limited concerning the effects of job mobility on the future vocational situation. The aim of the study was to investigate whether job-to-job mobility affects the likelihood of remaining on the labour market over time among persons who are employed and ...

This article compares the methods of a randomized multisite clinical trial of evidence-based supported employment with conventional vocational rehabilitation among veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI). The primary hypothesis is that, compared with conventional vocational rehabilitation (i.e., standard care), evidence-based supported employment will significantly improve competitive employment...

OBJECTIVE   Although numerous randomised controlled trials indicated the superiority of supported employment (SE), we still have too little evidence that SE is more effective than traditional vocational rehabilitation programmes (TVR) in Western European countries with highly developed social security and welfare systems, sophisticated rehabilitation programmes and high thresholds to the open l...

Innovative integration of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services into the healthcare continuum for veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) was the focus of the inaugural meeting of the “Spinal Cord Injury—Vocational Integration Program (SCI-VIP): Implementations and Outcomes” project, held in Dallas, Texas, November 29 through December 1, 2005. The project is funded through the Department of Ve...

This case study paper reports on the development and implementation of DISXPERT, a rule-based expert system tool for referral of social security disability recipients to vocational rehabilitation services. The growing use of paraprofessionals as caseworkers responsible for assessment in the social services area provides fertile domain areas for new and innovative application of expert systems t...

mentation of DISXPERT, an intelligent rule-based system tool for referral of social security disability recipients to vocational rehabilitation services. The growing use of paraprofessionals as caseworkers responsible for assessment in the social services area provides fertile domain areas for new and innovative application of intelligent system technology. The main function of DISXPERT is to p...