HANDICAPPED

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

JULY 13, 14; AUGUST 3, 4, AND 11, 1966

Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations

CONTENTS

Statement of Hon. Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator from the State of

New York...

Page

1

Statement of Hon. Jacob K. Javits, a U.S. Senator from the State of

New York..

3

WITNESSES

Terence E. Carroll, Director, National Institutes on Rehabilitation and

Health Services_

162

Hon. Lisle C. Carter, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Individual and Family

Services, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare_

48

Hon. Wilbur J. Cohen, Under Secretary, Department of Health, Educa-

tion, and Welfare...

5

Martin Dishart, Ph. D., project coordinator, Patterns of Services Project,

University of Maryland..

300

W. J. Driver, Administrator, Veterans' Affairs_

119

Dr. Dean W. Roberts, executive director, National Commission on Com-

munity Health Services_

298

Howard A. Rusk, M.D., director, Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine,

N.Y.U. Medical Center_.

143

Harold Russell, Chairman, President's Committee on Employment of the

Handicapped....

199

Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service,

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare..

40

Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner, Vocational Rehabilitation Administration,

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare__

E. B. Whitten, director, National Rehabilitation Association_.

Sumner G. Whittier, executive director, National Society for Crippled

Children and Adults_

Dr. Ellen Winston, Commissioner, Welfare Administration, Department

of Health, Education, and Welfare...

Hon. W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary, Department of Labor.

1. Summary table on programs for the handicapped under HEW___

2. Table estimating number of disabled persons in the United States in

1965__

3. Table showing selected impairments in the population.

4. Table showing classification of military rejectees, 1965__

5. Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Hon. John W. Gardner,
Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,
March 14, 1966_-_-

6. Explanation of statement made at House Appropriations Committee

hearings, 1966–.

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7. Information showing breakdown of the adequacy of State vocational

rehabilitation programs__

26

8. Information showing varying effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation

programs – –

28

9. Table showing State allotments and Federal grants under sections 2

and 3 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act and percent of allotment

used in 1966____

10. Discussion of epilepsy and vocational rehabilitation programs..