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A report is presented on the role of the medical profession in occupational guidance, especially for adolescents with disabilities. On the basis of the new guideline about Application for an Apprenticeship, (1977), the tasks for the different health care departments and their responsibilities in this field are set out. In addition, the author outlines the many possibilities for occupational integration of adolescents with some form of disability.

Int. J. Rehab. Research, 1980, 3 (2), 239-241. Statement of problem and aim: The State of Rheinland-Pfalz has introduced special forms of basic vocational training1 for adolescents having no vocational training or employment relationship and whose performance in the present vocational course is not expected to allow them to participate in the course of the basic vocational school year. Learning disordered adolescents, i.e. pupils with individual, only partially well defined, light or short-term learning disturbances take part in the special basic vocational school year SO 1 (BGJ/SOl). This one-year, full-time educational course is supposed to remedy, as far as possible, existent learning disorders, qualify the pupil for certain activities or functions within the ambit of his vocational aspirations, and enable him to enter into a vocational training relationship. In addition, learning disordered adolescents with good marks can achieve an educational standard equivalent to the high-school diploma which they lack - something which is of extreme importance for their future development. The learning disabled are, as a rule, former special school pupils with retarded intelligence who are educated in the special basic vocational school year SO 2 (BGJ/S02) with the aim of providing them with a general vocational orientation to enable them to perform occupational functions or activities, i.e. they should be put in a position of being accepted for particular occupations requiring a qualification (parag. 48 U vocational Training Act) or prepared for employment. © Williams and Wilkins 1980. All Rights Reserved.

In rural areas limited opportunties for work and vocational training occur. Distance from towns results in disadvantages not offset by commuting, particularly not by 15-16 year olds with limited mobility. The lack of training facilities is mainly due to the industrial structure, dominated by firms making consumer goods and basic industry rather than by capital goods manufacturers with a greater demand for qualified labour, and offering more and better training facilities. Rural training facilities offer few long term occupational prospects, as demand for skills decreases due to stagnation and rationalization. Another disadvantage is that the firms offering vocational training here are usually small or medium sized with sub-standard programmes and workshops, technical colleges are missing. Commerce and services, in rural areas show little specialization. The lack of training facilities particularly affects females. The baby-boom of the 1960s, is now causing higher demand for apprenticeships without a rise in supply. These disadvantages influence overall development, particularly the capital goods industries which regional policy tries to establish. Adequate facilities such as technical training centres could be a more effective development factor than financial incentives to firms to locate there. Thus the migration of the more highly motivated, young people to find training facilities could be conteracted. Moreover, the existing labour force would acquire a higher level of skill. Such factors could influence firms looking for a new location in a positive way. Financial assistance to firms willing to settle in rural areas and educational policy have to be coordinated to prevent the drift away. -from English summary

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.

In the past decade, evolution from hospital educational programs to collegiate programs in radiologic technology has been occurring. This progress has presented problems that have erupted because of misunderstandings about definitions of roles and accountability. This paper attempts to clarify these issues.

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Morbidity of port apprentices is analysed in the course of 9 years (1968/69 to 1976/77) by comparison; analysed were 1033 girls educated to be freight controllers, and 1652 boys educated in the same period in a vocational training to become port expert workers. Characteristics relevant for statements regarding disablement morbidity of both groups of test persons - relative disease frequency, average duration of disablement and morbidity - are represented differentially according to year of vocational training, kind of training (normal education and vocational training with leaving certificate examination), years of apprenticeship as well as group of diagnosis. Of aggrevating influence for rate of morbidity is primarily the extremely high disablement frequency of the apprentices with more than 200 cases/100 test persons on an average, whereby frequency of disablement due to severe colds, making up more than half of all medically attested cases of disablement, is especially striking. The girls trained for becoming freight controllers are more frequently and longer disabled; they show a morbidity of 0.71% above that of the male port expert worker apprentices. In addition to work induced influence factors connected with vocational training affecting the increase of apprentice morbidity, factors must be discussed which characterize the faction, general work climate, especially work and vocational satisfaction.

A three-year, federally funded competency-based education project has been completed at The Ohio State University, School of Allied Medical Professions. Six allied health divisions cooperated in the project: Physical Therapy, Medical Communications, Medical Dietetics, Medical Record Administration, Medical Technology, and Radiologic Technology. The purpose of the project was to have the six ongoing programs adopt an established, systematic process to plan for and develop curricular revisions. Professional roles and competencies were delineated as a basis for establishing performance criteria and instructional strategies. The materials that the Division of Physical Therapy developed and the processes that were used in conjunction with this project are described.