Paul Wehman
Bio:
Paul Wehman, Ph.D. Professor and Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports.
Dr. Wehman is Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with joint appointments in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Department of Rehabilitation Counseling. He pioneered the development of supported employment at VCU in the early 1980s and has been heavily involved in the use of supported employment with people who have severe disabilities, such as those with severe mental retardation, brain injury, spinal cord injury or autism.
Dr. Wehman is also Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Chairman of the Division of Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Wehman has written extensively on issues related to transition from school to adulthood and special education as it relates for young adulthood. He has published over 150 articles, 24 book chapters, and authored or edited 33 books. He is a recipient of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation International Awards in Mental Retardation, was a Mary Switzer Fellow for the National Rehabilitation Association in 1985, and has received the Distinguished Service Award from the President's Committee on Employment for Persons with Disabilities in October, 1992. Dr. Wehman was recognized as one of the 50 most influential special educators of the millenium by a national survey coordinated by the Remedial and Special Education journal (December, 2000), and recently received the VCU Distinguished Service Award, 2001, September 6, 2001. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. He has been the Principal Investigator of over 24 million dollars worth of federal grants since being at VCU.
Additional Affiliations:
VCU Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation- Editor-in-Chief
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