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Paul Wehman, Ph.D.

Professor and director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports

Wehman is a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with joint appointments in the department of Teaching and Learning 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. Wehman also is director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and chair of the Division of Rehabilitation Research. 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 more than 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. 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 received the VCU Distinguished Service Award in 2001. He also is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. He has been the principal investigator of more than $24 million worth of federal grants since being at VCU.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
• M.S. Illinois State University
• B.B.A. Western Illinois University

Additional info

• Curriculum vitae (PDF)
• Search National Rehabilitation Information Center for (P Wehman’s Publications)
• Search PubMed for (P Wehman’s Publications)
• Search National Library of Medicine for (P Wehman’s Publications)

Clinical specialties

• Traumatic brain injury.
• Physical disability.
• Return to work.
• Supported employment.

Patient office: Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports, 1314 West Main Street