This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...The new program includes not only a money "compensation," but also the completest possible physical restoration, including functional re-education and provision of the desirable prosthesis; and economic rehabilitation, including when necessary re-education for earning a living, and help in finding employment or in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...The new program includes not only a money "compensation," but also the completest possible physical restoration, including functional re-education and provision of the desirable prosthesis; and economic rehabilitation, including when necessary re-education for earning a living, and help in finding employment or in becoming an independent proprietor of a business or farm. These principles found fullest expression in the measures adopted for the benefit of our disabled soldiers and sailors, but the incredible inefficiency of administration has obscured them, to speak with moderation, and has made our actual treatment thus far of those whom the system was intended to benefit a national disgrace. It is confidently expected that the new ideals born of the war will affect favorably our provisions for those disabled in civilian life. Thus far the chief evidence of this is found in the federal aid which is now granted to the states, in proportion to their population and the amount they appropriate for the purpose, for the rehabilitation of industrial cripples, and in one or two attempts by private philanthropy to give vocational reeducation to crippled adults, to place them in positions, and to help them in other ways to re-establish themselves in economic and social life. It is inevitable, however, that ultimately the advances in technical and professional skill due to the experiences of the war, which have revolutionized the possibilities in the way of artificial arms and legs and eyes and faces and of functional re-education, and the new glimpse which we have had of the possibilities of economic re-education and re-establishment, will eventually result in a more general acceptance of the new ideals and more adequate social agencies for making them effe...
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