Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 32 - Rehabilitation And Disabilities › Part 11 - Vocational Rehabilitation Regulations › Part 361 - STATE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES PROGRAM › Subpart B - State Plan and Other Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation Services › Provision and Scope of Services › Section 32-11-361-B-361.48 - Scope of vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities

Current through June 25, 2024
As appropriate to the vocational rehabilitation needs of each individual and consistent with each individual's informed choice, the designated State unit must ensure that the following vocational rehabilitation services are available to assist the individual with a disability in preparing for, securing, retaining, or regaining an employment outcome that is consistent with the individual's strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests, and informed choice:
(a) Assessment for determining eligibility
					 and priority for services by qualified personnel, including, if appropriate, an
					 assessment by personnel skilled in rehabilitation technology, in accordance
					 with Sec. 361.42.
(b) Assessment
					 for determining vocational rehabilitation needs by qualified personnel,
					 including, if appropriate, an assessment by personnel skilled in rehabilitation
					 technology, in accordance with Sec. 361.45.
(c) Vocational rehabilitation counseling and
					 guidance, including information and support services to assist an individual in
					 exercising informed choice in accordance with Sec. 361.52.
(d) Referral and other services necessary to
					 assist applicants and eligible individuals to secure needed services from other
					 agencies, including other components of the statewide workforce investment
					 system, in accordance with Secs. 361.23, 361.24, and 361.37, and to advise
					 those individuals about client assistance programs established under 34 CFR
					 part 370.
(e) In accordance with
					 the definition in Sec. 361.5(b)(40), physical and mental restoration services,
					 to the extent that financial support is not readily available from a source
					 other than the designated State unit (such as through health insurance or a
					 comparable service or benefit as defined in Sec. 361.5(b)(10)).
(f) Vocational and other training services,
					 including personal and vocational adjustment training, books, tools, and other
					 training materials, cexcept that no training or training services in an
					 institution of higher education (universities, colleges, community or junior
					 colleges, vocational schools, technical institutes, or hospital schools of
					 nursing) may be paid for with funds under this part unless maximum efforts have
					 been made by the State unit and the individual to secure grant assistance in
					 whole or in part from other sources to pay for that training.
(g) Maintenance, in accordance with the
					 definition of that term in Sec. 361.5(b)(35).
(h) Transportation in connection with the
					 rendering of any vocational rehabilitation service and in accordance with the
					 definition of that term in Sec. 361.5(b)(57).
(i) Vocational rehabilitation services to
					 family members, as defined in Sec. 361.5(b)(23), of an applicant or eligible
					 individual if necessary to enable the applicant or eligible individual to
					 achieve an employment outcome.
(j)
					 Interpreter services, including sign language and oral interpreter services,
					 for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and tactile interpreting
					 services for individuals who are deaf-blind provided by qualified
					 personnel.
(k) Reader services,
					 rehabilitation teaching services, and orientation and mobility services for
					 individuals who are blind.
(l)
					 Job-related services, including job search and placement assistance, job
					 retention services, follow-up services, and follow-along services.
(m) Supported employment services in
					 accordance with the definition of that term in Sec. 361.5(b)(54).
(n) Personal assistance services in
					 accordance with the definition of that term in Sec. 361.5(b)(39).
(o) Post-employment services in accordance
					 with the definition of that term in Sec. 361.5(b)(42).
(p) Occupational licenses, tools, equipment,
					 initial stocks, and supplies.
(q)
					 Rehabilitation technology in accordance with the definition of that term in
					 Sec. 361.5(b)(45), including vehicular modification, telecommunications,
					 sensory, and other technological aids and devices.
(r) Transition services in accordance with
					 the definition of that term in Sec. 361.5(b)(55).
(s) Technical assistance and other
					 consultation services to conduct market analyses, develop business plans, and
					 otherwise provide resources, to the extent those resources are authorized to be
					 provided through the statewide workforce investment system, to eligible
					 individuals who are pursuing self-employment or telecommuting or establishing a
					 small business operation as an employment outcome.
(t) Other goods and services determined
					 necessary for the individual with a disability to achieve an employment
					 outcome.
Authority: Section
						103(a) of the Act;  29 U.S.C.
						723(a)