Accession Number: 2014.25.2
Scope & Content: Mailed from Saigon to C. Warren Bledsoe, Bethesda, Maryland. Kossick provides a brief update on the blind rehabilitation project in South Vietnam.
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