Accession Number: 2014.25.1
Scope & Content: Mailed to C. Warren Bledsoe, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Social Rehabilitation Services, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. Postmark: October 19, 196[7], Saigon. Kossick talks briefly about background music for a film about the blind rehabilitation project in South Vietnam; his outline for a framework of nationwide services in Vietnam for Vietnamese war-blinded; and budget concerns and standards of university O&M instructor training in the U.S. The last 4 minutes are addressed to Dr. Douglas MacFarland.
Creator: Kossick, Rod
Interview Date: / /
Collection: AER O&M Division C. Warren Bledsoe Archives
Credit Line: Gift of Rod Kossick, 2014.25
Administrative History: From 1966-1968, Rod Kossick, an orientation and mobility (O&M) specialist who had been supervisor of Services for the Blind, North Dakota Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, was contracted by the World Rehabilitation Fund, New York, to establish blind rehabilitation and vocational services in South Vietnam for war-blinded Vietnamese. Through this pilot project, a blind rehabilitation center opened in Saigon in 1967. Vietnamese O&M instructors were trained and the groundwork laid for a national program of services.
Subjects: Disabled veterans -- Vietnam, South Orientation and mobility Rehabilitation Services for the blind and visually impaired -- Vietnam, South