This article reports on a statistical analysis of data related to 76 people who were adventitiously blind as a result of retinitis pigmentosa. The researchers studied 10 personal (client) variables and four program variables to determine whether there were any relationships between the variables and the clients’ employment status at the time their cases were closed.
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