HUS 236 - Foundations of Vocational Rehabilitation  

Mini-Assignment #2

Please select from the list below a topic for your research and next assignment.

• Major Mental Illness
• Severe Mental Retardation
• Physical Disability
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Hearing Disability
• Visual Disability

1. Provide the topic area overview/characteristics/details.

• Type of disability
• Demographic information
• Statistics

2. Discuss why this topic area is important to know as it relates to VR.

3. Present what you hope to find when you conduct a review of the literature.

Due date: 3/15/2011

You will complete a review of the journal articles from a recent professional journal (2000-current) addressing issues surrounding your vocational rehabilitation research topic area ( Assignment #2).

• Include the journal title, authors, date, etc
• Provide a summary/overview the content of the article.
• Describe the findings of the research study.
• Discuss any recommendations for further research and/or limitations of study.
• Explain in your own words what you learned from the article to demonstrate your understanding of the material presented as it relates to Vocational Rehabilitation

Due date: 4/15/2011

* Article must come from profession (Peer-Reviewed) professional journal; not magazines, new papers or briefs.

What does Peer-Reviewed mean?

A scholarly periodical which requires that each article submitted for publication be judged by an independent panel of experts (scholarly or scientific peers). Articles not approved by a majority of these peers are not accepted for publication by the journal.