New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 100 - VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION - CLIENT SERVICES › Part 2 - DIRECT CLIENT SERVICES › Section 6.100.2.40 - SCOPE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. Vocational
				rehabilitation services provided by DVR are any goods or services necessary to
				render an individual with a disability employable, including, but not limited
				to, the following:
(1) An assessment for
				determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs by qualified
				personnel, including, if appropriate, an assessment by personnel skilled in
				rehabilitation technology;
(2)
				Counseling, guidance, and work-related placement services for individuals with
				disabilities, including job search assistance, placement assistance, job
				retention services, personal assistance services, and follow-up, follow-along,
				and specific post-employment services necessary to assist such individuals to
				maintain, regain, or advance in employment;
(3) Vocational and other training services
				for individuals with disabilities, which shall include personal and vocational
				adjustment, books, or other training materials, and such services to the
				families of such individuals as are necessary to the adjustment or
				rehabilitation of such individuals (except that no training services in
				institutions of higher education shall be paid for by DVR unless maximum
				efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from
				other sources to pay for such training);
(4) Physical and mental restoration services,
				including, but not limited to:
(a) corrective
				surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a
				physical or mental condition which is stable or slowly progressive and
				constitutes an impediment to employment, but is of such nature that such
				correction or modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate or reduce
				such impediment to employment within a reasonable length of time;
(b) necessary hospitalization in connection
				with surgery or treatment;
(c)
				prosthetic and orthotic devices;
(d) eyeglasses and visual services as
				prescribed by a physician skilled in the diseases of the eye or by an
				optometrist, whichever the individual may select;
(e) special services (including
				transplantation and dialysis), artificial kidneys, and supplies necessary for
				the treatment of individuals with end-stage renal disease; and
(f) diagnosis and treatment for mental and
				emotional disorders by a physician or licensed psychologist in accordance with
				state licensure laws.
(5) maintenance for additional costs incurred
				while participating in rehabilitation;
(6) interpreter services and note-taking
				services for individuals who are deaf, and reader services for those
				individuals determined to be blind after an examination by a physician skilled
				in the disease of the eye or by an optometrist, whichever the individual may
				select;
(7) recruitment and
				training services for individuals with disabilities to provide them with new
				employment opportunities in the fields of rehabilitation, health, welfare,
				public safety, and law enforcement, and other appropriate service
				employment;
(8) rehabilitation
				teaching services, reader services, and orientation and mobility services for
				individuals who are blind;
(9)
				occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and
				supplies;
(10) transportation in
				connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation
				service;
(11) telecommunications,
				sensory, and other technological aids and devices;
(12) rehabilitation technology
				services;
(13) referral and other
				services designed to assist individuals with disabilities in securing needed
				services from other agencies through agreements developed by dvr, if such
				services are not otherwise available;
(14) transition services that promote or
				facilitate the accomplishment of long-term rehabilitation goals and
				intermediate rehabilitation objectives;
(15) on-the-job or other related personal
				assistance services provided while an individual with a disability is receiving
				vocational rehabilitation services in this section;
(16) supported employment services (provided
				only to individuals with the most severe disabilities); and
(17) services to family members of
				individuals with disabilities if necessary to the adjustment and rehabilitation
				of the individual.