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Show VA HELP MAKES USEFUL CITIZENS OF WAR-BLINDED VETS Half of the nearly 2,000 war blinded veterans of the Korean Kore-an conflict and World War II hold jobs, even though many have other physical handicaps, handi-caps, a VA study indicates. This first comprehensive study of rehabilitation of the war-blinded by the VA shows most of the naliin's war veterans vet-erans without useful sight have rebuilt their lives. The group is making a positive posi-tive contribution as workers, citizens, and in many cases as heads of families. One is a clergyman. Others include a professor of speech, an instrument maker, teachers teach-ers of geology and sociology, a YMCA secretary, a biologist, biolo-gist, an economist in international interna-tional affairs, ten lawyers, three office managers a personnel per-sonnel director of a large company, com-pany, a plumbing and heating sales engineer, and many salesmen. Slightly more than 100 of the group are working in professional pro-fessional fields. About 140 still were in training at colleges, universities, universi-ties, and technical schools when the study was completed. complet-ed. The survey was prepared primarily to check results of the federal government's medical med-ical programs for rehabilitating rehabilitat-ing blinded veterans and of vocational rehabilitation thru use of colleges and technical schools under VA-adminis-tered laws. Both medical and vocational vocation-al rehabilitation have produced pro-duced results well justifying the expenditures involved, the study concludes. The project also enabled VA to identify the war-blinded who need additional services serv-ices from the agency and to determine factors entering into in-to the rehabilitation process. A definite correlation between be-tween emotional stability and employment among blinded veterans was revealed. Those achieving a good adjustment ad-justment emotionally have been the most successful in getting and holding jobs, and those with family ties, such as marriage and dependent children, chil-dren, have responded better to rehabilitation than those without with-out such ties. Further research is needed to help those with emotional and hearing problems and those with low vision who might profit from new developments devel-opments in optics, the study points out. The survey was made by VA medical social workers, who interviewed 98 of the service-connected war blinded veterans of the nation within a period of six months. Courtesy on the highway Is contagious try it. |
