Adjustment & Work

Frederick Wiseman

Adjustment & Work shows adjustment services for adults in personal and work situations as they learn to adjust to their impairments. Sequences include routine work and manufacturing of a variety of household and military products.

DIRECTOR
Frederick Wiseman
YEAR
1986
COUNTRY
U.S.
RUNTIME
120 minutes

Adjustment & Work shows adjustment services for adults in personal and work situations as they learn to adjust to their impairments. The first part of this film takes place at the E.H. Gentry Technical Facility, which provides evaluation and personal adjustment services to sensory impaired adults and also functions as a vocational training center offering technical instruction in 15 career areas such as business, printing, home economics, food services, and computer sciences. The film goes on to show work at the Alabama Industries for the Blind, the second largest employer of blind people in the U.S., which provides employment and training to more than 300 blind, deaf, and other people with disabilities.

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