| Abstract: | Examines, in historical terms, the differences between the leaders of the handicapped rights (HRs) movement and leaders of the vocational rehabilitation VR program. VR was born in the 1920's and was dominated by the emerging science of psychology. HR activists came to political maturity in the 1960's and adopted a civil-rights ideology. It is suggested that both the professional and the civil rights outlook have their share of contradictions and that these contradictions need to be understood before they can be unraveled. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
