To effect and facilitate rehabilitation of disabled individuals, the Office shall adopt and
maintain a plant, to be known as Vocational Rehabilitation Plan, which shall be as
follows:
(a) Early start. – The Office shall take care of the prompt location of the blind and
handicapped either by correspondence or other means, so that rehabilitation may begin
before he is unduly subjected to the disintegrating effects of idleness and hopelessness.
(b) Rehabilitation diagnosis. – The clinic of the office shall be subject each individual to
medical examination, personal interviews and tests of aptitudes and interests with a
view to meeting his problems and needs, discovering the nature and extent of his
disability, and determining the type of work he might best perform. These medical
examinations which include not only general medical examinations, but also specialist
and laboratory examinations, may also be secured from hospitals and other allied
government agencies according as each individual case may require.
(c) Counseling and guidance. – Each individual shall be given advice and made to
understand by the counselor designated by the office for each individual of his assets
and liabilities, the causes of his problems and the steps necessary to correct these
difficulties so as to enable him to adjust to his handicaps and select the type of job fitted
to his abilities.
(d) Medical service – Physical restoration, when needed to remove or reduce disabilities
shall be furnished and secured for the individual by the Office or other allied government
agencies on behalf of the client.
(e) Vocational training. – Having selected a specific job goal through the help and
advice of the counselor, the Office shall furnish the disabled the necessary training and
education necessary to fit them for the chosen work.
(f) Auxiliary service. – The Office shall provide transportation, books, other training
materials, occupational tools, equipment and licenses where necessary during the
period of vocational rehabilitation.
(g) Placement. – The Office shall secure for each individual employment best suited to
his capacity and talents and for which he is trained.
(h) Follow-up. – The Office shall conduct and follow-up on the individual’s job
performance for a reasonable time to make whatever adjustments may be necessary, or
to provide further medical, surgical, and psychiatric care if needed, or to supplement
training if required.
Sec. 6. PERSONAL STANDARD
General requirements of personnel of the Office. – The officers and staff members of
the Office should have a general knowledge of the adjustment and vocational training
for the blind and other disabled persons, and a knowledge of all the services, both
public and private, available to the blind and other disabled persons; and must be
conversant in the casework techniques incident to the employment problems of the
blind and other handicapped persons.
Sec. 7. DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE SUPERVISORS OF THE VOCATIONAL
REHABILITATION OFFICE
It shall be the duty of the Supervisor. –
(a) To supervise and coordinate all rehabilitation services to the blind and other
handicapped persons.
(b) Over-all supervision of all the disabled persons undergoing training in the
Adjustment Center.
(c) To advise the different blind and other handicapped groups and associations in their
activities for self-help.
(d) To keep tract of the latest progress in rehabilitation of the blind abroad and to direct
efforts for the application of such which may be applied to the disabled persons in the
Philippines.
(e) Whenever possible, to render vocational information service, self-inventory service
and counseling service to the blind and other handicapped persons to help them
determine decisions and plans and to improve their lot.
(f) To supervise and arrange placement of training of the blind and other handicapped
persons to the right job, either in sheltered workshop, self-employment, or employment
with business or industrial or agricultural enterprises.
(g) To help maintain public relations especially among the local, civic, religious, and
welfare agencies as those abroad.
(h) To help promote cordial relationships and healthy recreational activities among the
organization of the blind and other handicapped persons.