Oversight and Reauthorization Hearing on the Rehabilitation Act of 1983: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, Hearings Held in Washington, D.C., on March 21 and 23, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - Federal aid to services for people with disabilities - 443 pages |
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Page 254 - In making such grants or contracts, funds made available for any year will be utilized to provide a balanced program of assistance to meet the medical, vocational, and other personnel training needs of both public and private rehabilitation programs and institutions...
Page 362 - ... (4) collect, prepare, publish, and disseminate special educational or informational materials, including reports of the projects for which funds are provided under this...
Page 381 - When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. But if you're a paper manager, hiding in your office, they may not tell you about the problems only you can solve.
Page 230 - In addition to representing the American Foundation for the Blind, which is the national voluntary research and consultant agency in the field of services to blind persons...
Page 364 - EVALUATION SEC. 207. (a) The Secretary shall measure and evaluate the impact of all programs authorized by this Act, their effectiveness in achieving stated goals in general, and in relation to their cost, their impact on related programs, and their structure and mechanisms for delivery of services, including, where appropriate, comparisons with appropriate control groups composed of persons who have not participated in such programs.
Page 254 - Welfare, is authorized to make grants to and contracts with States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, to pay part of the cost of projects for...
Page 25 - ... control over one's life based on the choice of acceptable options that minimize reliance on others in making decisions and in performing everyday activities...
Page 381 - Admit your own mistakes openly, maybe even joyfully. Encourage your associates to do likewise by commiserating with them. Never castigate. Babies learn to walk by falling down. If you beat a baby every time he falls down, he'll never care much for walking. My batting average on decisions at Avis was no better than .333. Two out of every three decisions I made were wrong. But my mistakes were discussed openly and most of them corrected with a little help from my friends.
Page 352 - Conference of Educational Administrators Serving the Deaf Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf...
Page 203 - Our justification for higher funding levels stems from the purpose for which the money is spent — the prevention of an incalculable waste of human potential — a purpose on which no price tag can be placed.