3. A number of voluntary organizations serve the handicapped directly or indirectly and in varying ways. Some render actual services or arrange for and underwrite the costs of services; others are engaged principally in support of research and public education. Well known among these groups are the National Foundation, The National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, National Tuberculosis Association, American Cancer Society, Epilepsy Foundation of America, American Diabetes Association, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, The Arthritis Foundation, American Foundation for the Blind, American Hearing Society, Goodwill Industries, National Industries for the Blind, United Cerebral Palsy, the National Rehabilitation Association, and The Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc.

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WHAT FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR REHABILITATION:

1. Rehabilitation Centers - which are institutional type facilities bringing

together the medical, vocational, psychological, placement, social and
other services needed to plan and carry out a program of rehabilitation.
Examples of centers of the general type are the Woodrow Wilson Center
at Fishersville, Va.; the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center in Hot
Springs, Arkansas, the Georgia Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs;
the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled in New York, N. Y.; the
Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York, N. Y.; the
Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey; and the
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

2. Rehabilitation Centers for the Blind - Some examples are: Industrial
Home for the Blind, Brooklyn, N. Y.; North Carolina Rehabilitation
Center for the Blind, Butner, N. C.; South West Rehabilitation Center,
Little Rock, Ark.; Kansas Rehabilitation Center for Adult Blind, Topeka,
Kansas; St. Paul's Rehabilitation Center for the Blind, Newton, Mass.;
Minneapolis Society for the Blind, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.; Adjustment
Training Center, Florida Council for the Blind, Holly Hill, Daytona
Beach, Florida.

3. Sheltered Workshops - These were developed to meet the need for
special facilities in which disabled people can be prepared for work in
regular industries. For those unable to meet the demands of competitive
employment, the workshop may provide extended employment where
the disabled may produce according to their capabilities. It is estimated

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there are about 1,000 sheltered workshops in the United States. Goodwill Industries of America, Inc., has local units in many communities sheltered workshops and 41 affiliated branch workshops in the United States and 21 located in 9 foreign countries. National Industries for the Blind has approximately 75 affiliated workshops. Other sheltered workshops include: The Altro Workshop in New York City, facilities operated by the Volunteers of America, approximately 40 workshops for the blind unaffiliated with the N. I. B. and workshops operated by other voluntary groups, such as the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the Jewish Vocational Service, and local associations for retarded children. (6)

4. Hospitals with Special Services

5. Speech and Hearing Clinics The May, 1969 issue of American Annals

of the Deaf, lists 405 speech and hearing clinics in the United States

Hearing societies, crippled children's programs, and other special

educational services have speech and hearing clinics not included here.

There is an increasing recognition that rehabilitation is a part of total