Identifier: 14030760R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Crane, A. G. (Arthur Griswold), 1877-1955, author Columbia University. Teachers College, issuing body
Subjects: Disabled Persons Rehabilitation, Vocational Veterans World War I
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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ganization. The commanding officer of thehospital is superior local officer. The medical staff appears nextand superior to the educational officer. This again showsclearly that the purpose of the educational service was to beprimarily curative. The chief educational officer is in charge ofthe educational service. The position is not unlike that of thepresident of a college or vocational school, but with this difference,that the primary function of the school is therapeutic and con-sequently those who fix the policies and pass upon the generalefficiency of the work are the medical officers and the generaladministrative officers of the post. The chief educational officerhas on his staff an office administrative force which deals with allthe instructors and heads of departments. The work of recon-struction is divided into four departments—psychological, statis-tical, technical, and recreational or physical education. Each ofthese departments in a completely organized hospital will have
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48 Education for the Disabled in War and Industry its chief and assistants. As the number of instructors on thestaff of a hospital might number as high as one hundred twenty-five, it is evident that in each department there might be afaculty as large as is often found in small colleges. The group of women known as reconstruction aides for occu-pational therapy is shown in the chart directly subordinate to thechief educational officer, but cooperating and participating inthe work of the four general departments. At first this seems apeculiar arrangement. It is not far different, however, fromthe practice in civil institutions in which there is a large group ofwomen instructors who appear in all departments of the schoolbut for convenience are directly responsible to a dean of facultywomen, who in hospital organizations corresponds to the super-visor of aides. Under the supervisor of aides are certain headaides, who are differentiated from each other by the class of work,as commercial,

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