Paul Wehman
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
VCU School of Education
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation- Editor-in-Chief
Articles and Publications:
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