Employers' attitudes toward hiring persons with disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation services

This article describes a study of employers' attitudes toward hiring people with disabilities and toward the state Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agen cy. The study examined attitudes of employers in two states, one in the Mid west and one in the Southeast. In all cases, employers were known to have h ired people with disabilities and to have worked with the state VR agency. The study found that employers stated that they were glad they hired the pe rson they did, but expressed reservations about hiring people with certain types of disabilities. Employers did not express a high degree of knowledge about the state VR program, and satisfaction with VR was mixed.