Date of Award
1949
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
Abstract
Since 1920 the Commonwealth 0£ Virginia bas had an organized Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Program, having enacted the legislation creating the Service. a few weeks prior to the passage of the Federal Act in June of that year. A national consciousness of tho crippled and disabled had been awakened following World War I which culminated in the Veteran Rehabilitation Act. This was, actually, the forerunner of all later legislation meeting the popular demand tor a program available to all citizens, and which now reaches into all of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia as well.as Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii.
Recommended Citation
Rooke, Mabel Leigh, "An evaluation study of the rehabilitation service in Virginia" (1949). Master's Theses. 920.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/920