Vocational rehabilitation

A 1964 educational film on vocational rehabilitation and Orientation and Mobility for a newly blind man, made with assistance from the California Department of Rehabilitation

Vocational rehabilitation, also abbreviated VR or voc rehab, is a process which enables persons with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities, impairments or health disabilities to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining, or returning to employment or other useful occupations.[citation needed]

Vocational rehabilitation
SpecialtyVocational

Whilst, traditionally, the focus of vocational rehabilitation was job retention, an increased focus on an all-encompassing approach has become popular in contemporary approaches.[1] Approaches differ between countries, however, due to the differing amounts of financial and political support vocational rehabilitation receives.[1]

  1. ^ a b Ross, Joanna (2012). "The current state of vocational rehabilitation services". Work, Health and Wellbeing: The Challenges of Managing Health at Work. Bristol University Press: 95–117.