1. Payments to individuals, including all compensation, insurance, assistance payments, retirement, and scholarships.

2. Exemptions and preferences that have been made to classes of individuals that result in financial gain or avoidance of expense. An example is the additional $600 personal exemption allowed to the blind for income tax purposes.

3. Personal services to individuals that assist them toward leading normal lives. Here are described the rehabilitory services to patients in Public Health Service hospitals, as well as the restoration, training, and counseling of handicapped people done by States under grants from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.

4. Research that seeks to understand the causes, effects, amelioration, correction, overcoming, and acceptance of special conditions, including both intramural (by government scientists) and extramural (by nongovernment scientists under Federal grant or contract).

5. Training to increase the quality and quantity of people available to work with those who are exceptional. It includes teaching grants to colleges and other agencies to expand their facilities, and traineeships to enable students to attend courses at universities and special training facilities.

6. Technical assistance to improve the services rendered to exceptional and gifted by sharing administrative and professional knowledge.

SECTION 2-STATUTORY AUTHORITY FOR SERVICES

This section includes provisions of the United States Code, in numerical_order, which provide statutory authority for the services described in section 1. It also includes regulations published by executive departments to amplify these statutes. A brief background of the legislation and marginal notes have been added by the staff for ease of reference. It must be noted that the provisions of the United States Code printed here reflect the law as of the date of this volume. That is, all amendments have been incorporated into their proper place in the body of the section by the staff of the study even though not encoded by official act of Congress.

Not all code provisions and regulations are included. The material is too voluminous. Wherever possible references to the United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations have been made where more remotely related provisions have been elided.

SECTION 3-INDEX OF HANDICAPS (OR EXCEPTIONALITIES)

This section includes a detailed listing by handicap or exceptionality of all services authorized by the statutes printed in section 2, with a cross reference to the section of the United States Code and the public law which authorized the service. Where specific identification can be made recent budget requests and appropriations are shown. The index is of necessity repetitive in that many services are rendered to all handicapped people.

The categories of the exceptional conditions included are as follows:

Visual impairment
Hearing impairment
Defective speech
Neurological disorders

Orthopedic handicaps

Infectious disease

Special medical and health problems
Mental retardation

Giftedness

This division of fields was determined after consultation with professional advisers as being the most useful in the fields of special education and rehabilitation.

This volume, part I, will be followed by subsequent volumes: Part II, Analysis of Federal Services; and Part III, Recommendations. Each subsequent volume will have an individual introduction to cover its contents.

The subcommittee is grateful to the director, Dr. Frampton; to Charles H. Backstrom, Ph. D., assistant professor of political science, University of Minnesota; to Russell C. Derrickson, acting clerk, Committee on Education and Labor, to Augustine R. Kelley, special consultant, and to Louis Feigenbaum of the Government Printing Office, for their painstaking work in preparing part 1. The subcommittee also expresses its appreciation for the cooperation of the agencies who are operating the programs herein described. This volume should prove a long-standing reference work for laymen and professionals interested in these important fields of public service. CARL ELLIOTT, Chairman, Subcommittee on Special Education.

FEDERAL BRANCHES, DEPARTMENTS, AND AGENCIES AFFECTING SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION STUDY

SECTION I

AN INVENTORY OF FEDERAL SERVICES TO THE HANDICAPPED

The Federal Government provides the following services to handicapped and other exceptional persons. (The department or agency, and bureau, where appropriate, which administers the program is shown, as well as a reference to the United States Code provisions set out in section II of this volume.)

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS

Automobiles (Veterans Administration)-Pays up to $1,600 toward purchase of an automobile with special devices for veterans with wartime service-connected loss of foot, hand, or impairment of vision (38 U.S.C. 1901-1905).

Disabled (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Bureau of Public Assistance)-Makes grants-in-aid to States on a matching basis to assist with benefits and welfare services persons in need because handicapped by blindness, permanent and total disability, or, in the case of children, by the physical or mental incapacity of a parent. Encourages States to help such persons to attain self-support or self-care, including medical care or other remedial action (42 U.S.C. 601-606, 1201-1206, 1351-1355).

Education (Veterans Administration)-Affords education and training and subsistence allowance to Korean veterans who were discharged or released from a period of active duty, any part of which occurred during the Korean conflict, for an actual serviceconnected disability (38 U.S.C. 1601-1631).

Funeral expenses (Veterans Administration)-Pays up to $250 for funeral expenses of veteran recipients of disability compensation, or those discharged for disability, incurred in line of duty (38 U.S.C. 902).

Special housing (Veterans Administration)-Assists by paying up to 50 percent, under $10,000, in procuring specially adapted housing necessitated by disability of lower limbs or blindness (38 U.S.C. 801-804).

Travel allowance (Department of Defense)-Makes transportation and travel allowance for disabled dependents of members of Armed Forces (10 U.S.C. 1036).

Travel expenses (Veterans Administration)-Pays transportation expenses in connection with vocational rehabilitation, counseling, or upon termination of examination, treatment, or care; pays travel expenses of necessary attendant to such veteran; makes available printed reduced-fare requests for veteran required to travel to veterans' facilities frequently (38 U.S.C. 111).

COMPENSATION

Atomic injury (Atomic Energy Commission)-Pays compensation up to $5,000 to persons bodily injured, or killed resulting from any detonation, explosion, or radiation produced in the conduct of the Commission's testing atomic weapons (42 U.S.C. 2207).

Coast Guard (Department of the Treasury)-Pays to members of the Coast Guard Reserve who suffer sickness, disease, disability, or death, the same benefits payable to members of the Naval Reserve (14 U.S.C. 755).

Disabled Government employees (Department of Labor, Bureau of Employees Compensation)-Pays to Federal employees, including Reserve Officer Training Corps trainees, employees of the Panama Canal Company, members of the Civil Air Patrol, and officers of all branches of the U.S. Government and Government-owned corporations, and employees of the District of Columbia, who are injured on the job, tax-exempt bene