ERIC Number: ED277201
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Jan-29
Pages: 121
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor.
The transcript of the 1986 House of Representatives hearings on amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 contains verbatim testimony and committee questions, prepared statements, letters, and supplemental material. The Amendments require state plans to address rehabilitation engineering services, the development of mechanisms to provide technological devices to the disabled, restructuring of federal rehabilitation agencies, and provisions for increasing the state contribution from 20% to 25%. Organizations providing testimony or statements include: National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities; National Rehabilitation Association; Association of Retarded Citizens; Easter Seal Society; Matrix Institute; Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation; Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults; American Cancer Society; National Council of Independent Living; National Federation of the Blind; National Council on the Handicapped; and American Rehabilitation Counseling Association. (CB)
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship, Hearings, Higher Education, Vocational Rehabilitation
Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Information Analyses
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Rehabilitation Act 1973
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A