Rehabilitation of visually impaired persons in separate and general agencies

In 1997, the National Council on Disability recommended that separate Title I vocational rehabilitation (VR) grants to state agencies serving only con sumers who are visually impaired should be eliminated. This study found tha t such separate VR agencies serve consumers who are more socially and econo mically disadvantaged, have more severe visual impairments, have more secon dary disabilities, and incur greater service costs than do general agencies . In addition, various outcome criteria indicate the overall superiority of separate agencies.