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Behaviour checklist for identifying severely handicapped individuals with high levels of autistic behaviour

(b) In making such grants or contracts, funds made available for any year will be utilized to provide a balanced program of assistance to meet the medical, vocational, and other personnel training needs of both public and private REHABILITATION programs and institutions, to include projects in REHABILITATION medicine, REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, workshop and facility administration, prosthetics and orthotics, specialized personnel in providing services to blind and deaf individuals, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other fields contributing to the REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals, including homebound and institutionalized individuals and handicapped individuals with limited English - speaking ability.

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It also urged the church to employ such persons, encouraged individuals with handicaps to become part of the ongoing life of the church, and specifically called attention «to removal of environmental and architectural barriers.»

ABC also works directly with Social Security, Ohio Medicaid, CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program), BCMH (Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps), UHC Children's Foundation, ARC, Help Me Grow, Building Blocks, PASSS, Autism Society of Greater Cincinnati, Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati, EI Individual Budget, and Paige's Princess.

Jindal offered little in the way of handicapping of individual candidates in — or soon to be in — the 2012 presidential contest, saying only that it was «extremely common» that he talked with governors and former governors about policy matters and «things we have done in Louisiana».

One of the benefits you can enjoy when you join a disabled dating service is the ability to connect with thousands of other individuals who truly understand the challenges associated with physical handicaps.

The Education Department proposed new regulations for the early - intervention program for handicapped infants and toddlers, implementing changes made in the Individuals With Disabilities Act Amendments of 1991.

They do so today for countless purposes, typically to claim a right to free and edgy speech on T - shirts or banners under the First Amendment, to assert rights to education of the handicapped under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and to ask for more school spending under state constitutional provisions that are said to guarantee an equitable or an adequate education.

Specifically, she held that the state violated the ADA by failing to provide profoundly or severely disabled individuals with the same array of services as those provided to other less handicapped individuals, thereby discriminating solely on the degree of disability.

We do not ask the teacher of mentally retarded children or the learning disabilities specialist to curtail badly needed individual instruction with severely handicapped children so that she can «bring out the hidden disabilities in all children.»

Now, I'll admit that people from disadvantaged backgrounds have the odds stacked against them, as do individuals with abusive parents or mental and physical handicaps.

Another type of school plan, called a Section 504 Plan, comes under the Americans with Disabilities Act and provides only accommodations, focusing on granting access for individuals with handicapping conditions.

(A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its administration by a local agency, except that (i) where under the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to * provide vocational REHABILITATION services to such individuals, such agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan * under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with another agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational * REHABILITATION services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of that State;

(1) cooperate with, and render technical assistance (directly or by grant * or contract) to States in matters relating to the REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals;

Grants may include funds for services rendered by such a center to handicapped individuals in connection with such research and training activities.

(c) The Secretary is authorized (directly or by grants or contracts) to conduct studies, investigations, and evaluation of the programs authorized by this ACT, and to make reports, with respect to abilities, aptitudes, and capacities of handicapped individuals, development of their potentialities, their utilization in gainful and suitable employment, and with respect to architectural, transportation, and other environmental and attitudinal barriers to their REHABILITATION, including the problems of homebound, institutionalized, and older blind individuals.

Maintenance payments under this section shall be consistent with any maintenance payments made to other handicapped individuals in the State under this ACT.

(2) provide short - term training and instruction in technical matters * relating to vocational REHABILITATION services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for any one course of study for a period in excess of four years, and such training, instruction, fellowships, * and traineeships may be in the fields of REHABILITATION medicine, * REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, * REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, prosthetics and orthotics, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other specialized fields contributing to the * REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals; and

(7) recruitment and training services for handicapped individuals to provide them with new employment opportunities in the fields of REHABILITATION, health, welfare, public safety, and law enforcement, and other appropriate service employment;

(a) From each State's allotment under this part for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall pay to such State or, at the option of the State agency designated pursuant to section 101 (a)(1), to a public or nonprofit organization or agency, a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan approved pursuant to section 101 to expand vocational REHABILITATION services, including programs to initiate or expand such services to individuals with the most severe handicaps, or of special programs under such State plan to initiate or expand services to classes of handicapped individuals who have unusual and difficult * problems in connection with their REHABILITATION, particularly handicapped individuals who are poor, and responsibility for whose treatment, education, * and REHABILITATION is shared by the State agency designated in section 101 with other agencies.

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

Such study shall encompass the extent to which other programs administered by the Secretary do or might contribute to the objectives set forth in clauses (1) and (2) of the preceding sentence and the method by which all such programs can be coordinated at Federal, State, and local levels with those carried out under this ACT to the end that individuals with the most severe handicaps are assured of receiving the kinds of assistance necessary for them to achieve such objects.

(B) provide that special consideration will be given to the REHABILITATION under this ACT of a handicapped individual whose handicapping condition arises from a disability sustained in the line of duty while such individual was performing as a public safety officer and the proximate cause of such * disability was a criminal ACT, apparent criminal ACT, or a hazardous condition resulting directly from the officer's performance of duties in direct connection with the enforcement, execution, and administration of law or fire prevention, firefighting, or related public safety activities;

(B) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the States has studied and considered a broad variety of means for providing services to individuals with the most severe handicaps; provide for such methods of administration, other than methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of the plan;

(3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals, which shall include personal and vocational adjustment, books, and other training materials, and services to the families of such individuals as are * necessary to the adjustment or REHABILITATION of such individuals: Provided, That no training services in institutions of higher education shall be paid for with funds under this title unless maximum efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such training;

(B) provide that the State agency so designated to administer or supervise the administration of the State plan, or (if there are two State agencies designated under subclause (A) of this clause) to supervise or administer the part of the State plan that does not relate to services for the blind, shall be (i) a State agency primarily concerned with vocational REHABILITATION, or vocational and other REHABILITATION, of handicapped individuals, (ii) the State agency administering or supervising the administration of education or vocational education in the State, or (iii) a State agency which includes at least two other major organizational units each of which administers one or more of the major public education, public health, public welfare, or labor programs of the State; provide, except in the case of agencies described in clause (1)(B)(i)-

(c) The Secretary shall also insure that (1) in developing and carrying out individualized written REHABILITATION program required by section 101 in the case of each handicapped individual primary emphasis is placed upon the determination and achievement of a vocational goal for such individual, (2) a decision that such an individual is not capable of achieving such a goal and thus not eligible for vocational REHABILITATION services provided with assistance under this part, is made only in full consultation with such individual (or, in appropriate cases, his parents or guardians), and only upon the certification, as an amendment to such written program, that the * evaluation of REHABILITATION potential has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that such individual is not then capable of achieving such a goal, and (3) any such decision shall be reviewed at least annually in accordance with the procedure and criteria established in this section.

(G)(i) the provision of vocational REHABILITATION services to any individual for a total period not in excess of eighteen months for the purpose of determining whether such individual is a handicapped individual, a handicapped individual for whom a vocational goal is not possible or feasible (as determined in accordance with section 102 (c)-RRB-, or neither such individual; and (ii) an assessment, at least once in every ninety - day period during which such services are provided, of the results of the provision of such services to an individual to ascertain whether any of the determinations described in subclause (i) may be made.

(3) The Secretary may make a grant for a project pursuant to this subsection only on his determination that (A) the purpose of such project is to prepare handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, for gainful and suitable employment: (B) the individuals to receive training services under such project will include only those who have been determined to be suitable for and in need of such training services by the State agency or agencies designated as provided in section 101 (a)(1) of the * State in which the REHABILITATION facility is located; (C) the full range of training services will be made available to each such individual, to the extent of his need for such services; and (D) the project, including the * participating REHABILITATION facility and the training services provided, meet such other requirements as he may prescribe in regulations for carrying out the purposes of this subsection.

(1) to demonstrate methods of (A) providing the specialized intensive services, and other services, needed to rehabilitate handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind, and (B) training the professional and allied personnel needed adequately to staff facilities specifically designed to provided such services and training to such personnel who have been or will be working with deaf - blind individuals;

(d) The Secretary is authorized to make contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services (determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary) as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment.

(3) to aid in the conduct of related activities which will expand or improve the services for or help improve public understanding of the problems of deaf - blind individuals; the Secretary, subject to the provisions of section 306, is authorized to enter into an agreement with any public or nonprofit agency or organization for payment by the United States of all or part of the costs of the establishment and operation, including construction and * equipment, of a center for vocational REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind, which center shall be known as the National Center for Deaf - Blind Youths and Adults.

(a) The Secretary, through the Commissioner, in coordination with other appropriate programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is authorized to make grants to and contracts with States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, to pay part of the cost of projects for training, traineeships, and related activities designed to assist in increasing the numbers of personnel trained in providing vocational services to handicapped individuals and in performing other functions necessary to the development of such services.

(d) The Civil Service Commission, after consultation with the Committee, shall, on June 30, 1974, and at the end of each subsequent fiscal year, make a complete report to the appropriate committees of the Congress with respect to the practices of and achievements in hiring, placement, and advancement of handicapped individuals by each department, agency, and instrumentality and the effectiveness of the affirmative action programs required by subsection (b) of this section, together with recommendations as to legislation which have been submitted to the Civil Service Commission under subsection (a) of this section, or other appropriate action to insure the adequacy of such practices.

(11) provide for entering into cooperative arrangements with, and the utilization of the services and facilities of, the State agencies administering the State's public assistance programs, other programs for handicapped individuals, veterans programs, manpower programs, and public employment offices, and the Social Security Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Veterans» Administration, and other Federal, State, and local public agencies providing services related to the * REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals;

(c) The Civil Service Commission, after consultation with the Committee, shall develop and recommend to the Secretary for referral to the appropriate State agencies, policies and procedures which will facilitate the hiring, placement, and advancement in employment of individuals who have received REHABILITATION services under State vocational REHABILITATION programs, veterans» programs, or any other program for handicapped individuals, including the promotion of job opportunities for such individuals.

(A) that the State agency designated pursuant to paragraph (1)(or each State agency if two are so designated) shall include a vocational REHABILITATION bureau, division, or other organizational unit which (i) is primarily concerned with vocational REHABILITATION, or vocational and other REHABILITATION, of handicapped individuals, and is responsible for the vocational REHABILITATION program of such State agency, (ii) has a full - time director, and (iii) has a staff employed on such REHABILITATION work of such organizational unit all or substantially all of whom are employed full time on such work; and;

(a) Any contract in excess of $ 2,500 entered into by any Federal department or agency for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) for the United States shall contain a provision requiring that, in employing persons to carry out such contract the party contracting with the United States shall take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified handicapped individuals as defined in section 7 (6).

There shall be included in the annual report to the Congress required by section 404 a full report on the research and training activities carried out under this title and the extent to which such research and training has contributed directly to the development of methods, procedures, devices, and trained personnel to assist in the provision of vocational * REHABILITATION services to handicapped individuals and those with the most * severe handicaps under this ACT.

(b)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 per centum of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or * nonprofit REHABILITATION facilities.

(b) The study shall include site visits to sheltered workshops, interviews with handicapped trainees or clients, and consultations with interested individuals and groups and State agencies designated pursuant to section 101.

(1) in the case of any type of small business operated by individuals with the most severe handicaps the operation of which can be improved by management services and supervision provided by the State agency, the provision of such services and supervision, along or together with the acquisition by the State agency of vending facilities or other equipment and initial stocks and supplies; and

(h) When in any State, funds provided under this title will be used for providing direct services to handicapped individuals or for establishing facilities which will provide such services, such services must be carried out in a manner not inconsistent with the State plan approved pursuant to section 101.

(15) provide for continuing statewide studies of the needs of handicapped individuals and how these needs may be most effectively met (including the State's needs for REHABILITATION facilities) with a view toward the relative need for services to significant segments of the population of handicapped individuals and the need for expansion of services to those individuals with the most severe handicaps;

(c) otherwise discriminate against an individual with respect to promotion, compensation, or terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on the basis of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or state of physical handicap.».

(C)(i) For purposes of title V, the term «individual with handicaps» does not include an individual who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs, when a covered entity acts on the basis of such use.

L. 99 — 506, § § 103 (d)(2)(C), 1002 (e)(1), (2)(A), substituted «Equal Employment Opportunity Commission» for «Office of Personnel Management» wherever appearing, «individuals with handicaps» for «handicapped individuals», and «of the activities» for «of the the activities».

L. 99 — 506, § 103 (d)(2)(C), substituted «individuals with handicaps» for «handicapped individuals» in section catchline.

L. 99 — 506, § § 103 (d)(2)(C), 1002 (e)(1), substituted «Equal Employment Opportunity Commission» for «Office of Personnel Management» and «individuals with handicaps» for «handicapped individuals» wherever appearing.

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