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PUBLIC LAW 93-112-SEPT. 26, 1973
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RESEARCH
SEC. 202. (a) The Secretary, through the Commissioner, and in Federal grants, coordination with other appropriate programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is authorized to make grants to and contracts with States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, to pay part of the cost of projects for the purpose of planning and conducting research, demonstrations, and related activities which bear directly on the development of methods, procedures, and devices to assist in the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, under this Act. Such projects may include medical and other scientific, technical, methodological, and other investigations into the nature of disability, methods of analyzing it, and restorative techniques; studies and analyses of industrial, vocational, social, psychological, economic, and other factors affecting rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; special problems of homebound and institutionalized individuals; studies and analyses of architectural and engineering design adapted to meet the special needs of handicapped individuals; and related activities which hold promise of increasing knowledge and improving methods in the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals and individuals with the most severe handicaps. (b) In addition to carrying out projects under subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary, through the Commissioner, and in coordination with other appropriate programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is authorized to make grants to pay part or all of the cost of the following specialized research activities: (1) Establishment and support of Rehabilitation Research and ^f/^^^^^J^^^^*^^^"" Training Centers to be operated in collaboration with institutions of Training centers, higher education for the purpose of providing coordinated and establishment. advanced programs of research in rehabilitation and training of rehabilitation research personnel, including, but not limited to, graduate training. Grants may include funds for services rendered by such a center to handicapped individuals in connection with such research and training activities. (2) Establishment and support of Rehabilitation Engineering EiflneerinReResearch Centers to (A) develop innovative methods of applying search centers,' advanced medical technology, scientific achievement, and psychologi- establishment. cal and social knowledge to solve rehabilitation problems through planning and conducting research, including cooperative research with public or private agencies and organizations, designed to produce new scientific knowledge, equipment, and devices suitable for solving problems in the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals and for reducing environmental barriers, and to (B) cooperate with State agencies designated pursuant to section 101 in developing systems of informa- ^"*^' P" ^^^• tion exchange and coordination to promote the prompt utilization of engineering and other scientific research to assist in solving problems in the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals. (3) Conduct of a program for spinal cord injury research, to include ^^^^/"^g "^ch support of spinal cord injuries projects and demonstrations estab- '"^""^^ fesearc lished pursuant to section 303(b), which will (A) insure dissemi- Post. p. 379. nation of research findings among all such centers, (B) provide encouragement and support for initiatives and new approaches by individual and institutional investigators, and (C) establish and maintain close working relationships with other governmental and voluntary institutions and organizations engaged in similar efforts, in order to unify and coordinate scientific efforts, encourage joint planning, and promote the interchange of data and reports among spinal cord injury investigators.
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