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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 
 THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
 
 DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND EXTENSION EDUCATION 
 
 BUREAU OF REHABILITATION 
 
 NEW OPPORTUNITIES 
 
 FOR 
 
 PERSONS DISABLED 
 
 IN INDUSTRY OR 
 
 OTHERWISE 
 
 By Act of the Legislature, May 13, 1920 
 
 T36P-JI21-5000 
 

 
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 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 T^ECEIVED 
 
 NQV301921 
 
 DOCUMENTS uV.dlON 
 

 ^ 1 Opportunities provided by law 
 
 ^_ By an act of the Legislature, all physi- 
 cally handicapped persons residing in the 
 State of New York, who are incapacitated 
 for remunerative occupations are entitled 
 to the services of the Bureau of Rehabili- 
 tation, except as follows : 
 
 a Aged or helpless persons requiring 
 permanent custodial care, or blind per- 
 sons under the care of the State Com- 
 mission for the Blind ; or 
 
 b Any person in any state institution 
 or confined in any correctional or 
 penal institution ; or 
 
 c Epileptic or feeble-minded persons 
 or any person who, in the judgment of 
 the Commissioner of Education, may 
 not be susceptible of rehabilitation ; or 
 d Persons of the age of 14 years 
 and under. 
 All other physically handicapped per- 
 sons residing in the State of New York, 
 who are citizens of the United States or 
 any person who has declared his intention 
 
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of becoming a citizen, and who is and has 
 been domiciled within the State for one 
 year or more, is entitled to vocational re- 
 habilitation. 
 
 2 Services of the bureau 
 
 Physically handicapped persons may 
 make application to the nearest office of 
 the Bureau of Rehabilitation and receive 
 the following service: 
 
 a Helpful counsel concerning re- 
 training for the former occupation or 
 a new occupation. 
 
 h The opportunity to enter upon a 
 course of training in a trade, technical, 
 agricultural or commercial school ; a 
 correspondence course, or placement 
 for training in an industry which will 
 be suitable for each particular in- 
 dividual. 
 
 c Kindly supervision and guidance 
 during this course of training, in order 
 that the person being trained may re- 
 ceive the greatest benefit therefrom. 
 
 d When the course of training has 
 been completed, the Bureau of Re- 
 habilitation will endeavor to secure 
 
positions for those who are capable of 
 engaging in remunerative occupations. 
 
 e Advice and assistance in securing 
 artificial limbs and other orthopedic 
 and prosthetic appliances to be paid for 
 in instalments at the minimum cost. 
 
 3 Money benefits for physically handi- 
 capped persons while in training 
 
 a The Bureau of Rehabilitation will 
 pay the tuition and for necessary sup- 
 plies and any necessary incidental 
 traveling expenses of physically handi- 
 capped persons during the peri^ of 
 training. .. 4 ^^ 
 
 /; Physically handicapf^g^persons 
 eligible under the •rMgJ^flitalion act, 
 who were injuj^lffllh^r received com- 
 pensatior^iH^del^he compensation act, 
 may 4iiJqtfji^ additional compensation 
 wj^i iTCcessary for the purpose of 
 ^Aijylinlenance, but not to exceed $io a 
 \ week, for not more than twenty weeks. 
 
 c The Bureau of Rehabilitation will 
 endeavor to secure financial assistance 
 from suitable sources for physically 
 
handicapped persons who arc being 
 trained for remunerative occupations, 
 and who were not covered by the com- 
 pensation law at the time of their 
 injury. 
 
 4 Early application 
 
 Physically handicapped persons eligible 
 for vocational rehabilitation should make 
 application to the Bureau of Rehabilitation 
 as early as possible after receiving an in- 
 jury which may incapacitate them for re- 
 munerative occupations. They may make 
 this application themselves, or the applica- 
 tion may be made by the employer, an in- 
 surance company, a friend, a hospital, a 
 physician, a social worker, or an interested 
 citizen. In so far as possible, the Bureau 
 of Rehabilitation wM have its agents call 
 upon physically handicaoped persons seek- 
 ing vocational rehabilitation in hospitals or 
 in their homes, when they are not able to 
 come to the offices of the Bureau. 
 
 Application should be made to that office 
 of the Bureau of Rehabilitation which is 
 nearest to the residence of any one seeking 
 vocational rehabilitation. 
 
5 Offices of the Bureau of Rehabilitation 
 
 Albany, Education Building, 
 
 District Director, William Noyes 
 
 Buffalo, 451 Main st,. 
 District Director, Sydney H. Coleman 
 
 New York City, 118 E. 28th st., 
 District Director, Frederic G. Elton 
 
 Syracuse. 433 S. Salina st., 
 
 District Director, Joseph J. Endres. 
 Acting 
 
 Director, Bureau of Rehabilitation, 
 R. M. Little 
 
 118 E. 28th St., New York City 
 
019 595 495 1