Of the 300 brain-injured adolescents discharged from the Gailingen Youth Centre (Jugendwerk Gailingen) between 1974-76, 199 were placed either in apprenticeship training or a job. 81.5% of the 199 rehabilitees were directly placed in vocational training or open employment. Only 18.5% received vocational training in rehabilitation training or re-training centres where the commercial and clerical occupations, including technical draftsmanship, predominated (64.5%). In open industry, on the other hand, commercial and clerical occupations, crafts and technical trades, as well as mechanical works represented the most important rehabilitation jobs with 39.2%, 38% and 6.5% respectively. The lowest percentage of handicapped neurological and psychological sequelae of the trauma was found in rehabilitees who had chosen technical draftsman and commerical occupations. The percentage was higher in crafts and technical occupations and reached its maximum in rehabilitees placed in mechanical occupations and skilled and unskilled clerical jobs. According to these findings many of the rehabilitees placed in commercial jobs would have been capable of doing craftsman's work as far as the job demands are concerned. Only 14% of the rehabilitees placed in altogether 49 occupational groups of the general labour market found their work rather hard and 6% hard to perform. The most strenous factor was the work speed from which suffered 33% placed in electrical, 20% in draftsman and 18% in mechanical occupations.
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