[Patients with severe multiple handicaps in workshops for the handicapped--a project of the Berlin Workshops for the Handicapped GmbH (BWB) 4 December 1989 to 31 May 1990]. / Schwerstmehrfachbehinderte in Werkstätten für Behinderte--Ein Projekt der Berliner Werkstätten für Behinderte GmbH (BWB) in der Zeit von 4.12.1989 bis 31.5.1990.

A project had been carried out at Berliner Werkstätten für Behinderte GmbH (BWB) aimed at integrating cerebral palsied persons with very severe, multiple disability in a workshop for the disabled. Client workshop readiness had been determined on the criteria of social capacity, extraordinary care need at the workplace, and economic viability of work. The project, planned to last 6 months, had to be discontinued because the 9 disabled persons included in this programme refused to cooperate after a short period of time.

[Difficulties in the occupational incorporation of the mentally handicapped]. / Schwierigkeiten psychisch Behinderter bei der beruflichen Eingliederung.

Psychiatric clinics report great difficulties in motivating patients, on successful completion of medical rehabilitation and vocational therapy, to file an application for vocational rehabilitation. And if they do so, the mentally ill persons more frequently then other disabled persons break off the vocational rehabilitation measures taken. After a two year discussion process, a study group in Berlin (West), which consisted of representatives of different institutions involved in vocational rehabilitation, have published a memorandum stating the central obstacles for mentally ill persons to enter and remain in a "Workshop for Disabled." Proposals are made how to improve the situation.