Kick it into gear before your first Voc Rehab meeting. I wrote an Op Ed on this subject over a year ago called “The Lies They Tell.” After a few VA employees threatened to close their accounts, we ...

Voc Rehab has amazing resources available to veterans where self-employment is a feasible goal, but rumors are circling the nation that the program is discouraging entrepreneurship. Counselors are now ...

This Disability Scoop article looks at the impact federally-funded vocational rehabilitation has on people with autism. The story points out that 60 percent of those on the spectrum left the federally ...

Defined by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) as a core partner program, the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) program plays a key role in serving individuals with disabilities. The VR ...

Vocational rehabilitation agencies across the country say they’re serving more students with disabilities thanks to a new federal mandate, but they’re still falling short of fully meeting their ...

After eight years of war, you might think the system for delivering benefits to America's most disabled war veterans would be well organized, efficient and as caring as possible. It's not. A two-month ...

From 2008-16 an estimated 1.98 million autistic adults—or 99%, of those who likely needed employment services—did not receive support through Medicaid or Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, a ...

Researchers at Kessler Foundation authored a new article, "Employment after spinal cord injury," published by Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports on May 24, 2020. Authored by John ...

No matter what a person's disability, David Turnipseed Jr. says he expects those four things from everyone. "This isn't a sheltered workshop. This is a training center," said Turnipseed, who manages ...

Doug Bichler lost his right arm in 2017. He made immediate changes to Bichler Simmentals to stay in ranching, and later North Dakota Vocational Rehabilitation helped him better adapt for the future.

Most people with autism who receive vocational rehabilitation services exit the program with a job, a new report finds, but such employment is typically part-time and low paid. Nationally, about 60 ...