Sentences with phrase «with vocational rehabilitation»

As it follows, the FCE then may be used together with vocational rehabilitation, which is another method to help the injured worker find a brand new job.

If no such position is available, your employer is required to provide you with vocational rehabilitation.

Vocational rehabilitation is the process of working with a vocational rehabilitation counselor to help an injured worker re-enter the workforce; usually, under physical -LSB-...]

(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;

(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)-

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Any type of rehabilitation or vocational work is of great value to the residents as it provides the individual with a sense of pride and achievement that they can use their time for the benefit of themselves and their community

«US National Autism Indicators Report 2016: Vocational rehabilitation: More than half with autism found to leave program with jobs, but most earn wages below poverty line.»

Gateway provides a wide array of services to adults, children and families, including around - the - clock psychiatric emergency services, psychiatric medication therapy services, outpatient counseling for individuals and families, specialized residential care for children and adolescents, permanent affordable housing for adults, supervised adult residential services, adult supported housing services, mental health services for adults with persistent mental health issues, a licensed school for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties, nationally recognized vocational and occupational rehabilitation services, a therapeutic outdoor recreation program for children and adolescents, a homeless shelter for families and residential substance abuse services, as well as individual and case management services for adults and children.

A comprehensive approach to clinical rehabilitation that includes vocational services will improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.

The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission is developing a new, customized, best practice model for disability employment that could be replicated by vocational rehabilitation agencies and community rehabilitation providers across the country with the goal of increasing employment, reducing reliance on public benefits, and promoting self - sufficiency through earnings and preventative health benefits.

Mercy Health Foundation will partner with state vocational and community rehabilitation providers to identify applicants and provide on - the - job training support.

By partnering with the International Brain Injury Clubhouse Association, a collaborative international network of clubhouses, as well as local clinical programs, Service Source is prioritizing the inclusion of vocational rehabilitation services in brain injury management programs.»

Integrating vocational resources into medical rehabilitation is a promising strategy for maintaining employment among people with disabling injuries of the brain and spinal cord.

A former research and teaching assistant in the College of Education at Michigan State University, with prior experience in law enforcement, architecture, art and design before becoming involved in technological services to those with special needs, working in universities (including teaching at both Michigan State and Grand Valley State Universities), K - 12 schools, businesses, and vocational rehabilitation services.

From October 2008 through September 2013, SEDL's vocational rehabilitation service models for individuals with autism spectrum disorders project worked to improve employment outcomes for people with autism spectrum disorders by conducting research and disseminating information about effective strategies and services.

In some cases, positions associated with the provision of employment and applied learning opportunities were co-funded by special education, vocational rehabilitation, or other local funds earmarked for implementation of the STOA.

The Trump administration recently rescinded 72 pieces of guidance related to special education and vocational rehabilitation services for children and adults with disabilities.

(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;

(A) establish, on an appropriate regional basis, a multidisciplinary system of providing vocational and other REHABILITATION services, specifically designed to meet the special needs of individuals with spinal cord injuries, including acute care as well as periodic inpatient or outpatient followup and services;

(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

(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);

(18) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the State agency designated pursuant to clause (1)(or each State agency if two are so designated) and any sole local agency administering the plan in a political subdivision of the State will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of * individuals and groups thereof who are recipients of vocational REHABILITATION services (or, in appropriate cases, their parents or guardians), working in * the field of vocational REHABILITATION, and providers of vocational REHABILITATION services; and

(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.

(I) vocational training with a view toward career advancement (in combination with other REHABILITATION services),

(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;

The term «local agency» means an agency of a unit of general local government or of an Indian tribal organization (or combination of such units or organizations) which has an agreement with the State agency designated pursuant to section 101 (a)(1) to conduct a vocational REHABILITATION program under the supervision of such State agency in accordance with the State plan approved under section 101.

(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) 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.

(e)(1) The Secretary is authorized, directly or by contract with State vocational REHABILITATION agencies or experts or consultants or groups thereof, to provide technical assistance (A) to REHABILITATION facilities, and (B) for the purpose of removal og architectural and transportation barriers, to any public or nonprofit agency, institution, organization or facility.

(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.

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) Not later than June 30, 1974, the Secretary shall report to the Congress his findings and recommendations, including recommendations for additional legislation, with respect to the study required by this section, which report shall include recommendations with respect to allotment of Federal funds among the States and the Federal share of the cost of furnishing vocational REHABILITATION services by the States.

(C) there shall be compliance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe designed to assure that no State will reduce its efforts in providing other vocational REHABILITATION services (other than for the establishment of REHABILITATION facilities) because its plan includes such provisions for construction;

(7) contain (A) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, which are consistent with any State licensure laws and regulations, including provisions relating to the tenure, selection, appointment, and qualifications of personnel, and (B) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of minimum standards governing the facilities and personnel utilized in the provision of vocational REHABILITATION services, but the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, method of selection, tenure of office, or compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such provision;

(10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational REHABILITATION service; and

To support your case, we retain the services of medical doctors who provide expert analysis and testimony; non-medical experts who can determine your financial losses; and vocational rehabilitation experts who determine the costs associated with occupational retraining.

Attorney Ventura has worked with experts throughout the United States involving specialists in diverse fields such as: accident reconstructionists, engineers, scientists, safety consultants, OSHA and Building Code experts, orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, cardiologists, psychologists, physical rehabilitation specialists, vocational specialists, and economists.

Through its emphasis on full pre ‐ funding of the system and claims cost based rate ‐ setting, the Marshall scheme threatens to undermine the goals of workers» compensation as a public social insurance system with fair compensation and meaningful vocational rehabilitation.

When you are dealing with a work injury there are also several terms that are used when you deal with the workers» compensation insurance company or, perhaps, when you're going through the vocational rehabilitation process.

Our focus on traumatic injury cases arising from car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck and other vehicle accidents has led us to forge strong relationships with a wide range of experts in this area, ranging from doctors and surgeons to accident reconstruction engineers, law enforcement, economists and vocational rehabilitation experts.

Sadly, the extent of the injuries were such that he was not able to continue with his former employment; but vocational support and rehabilitation helped him to return to work in a capacity that he was able to manage and enjoy.

A personalized approach to accessing rehabilitation services will ensure that the individual can take advantage of all of the vocational and recreational options that technology has made available to those with reduced mobility.

If you have any questions or would like a referral to a lawyer in Illinois who is experienced with work injury claims involving vocational rehabilitation, please contact us at any time.

We work with medical experts, vocational rehabilitation experts and life care planners to help the jury and insurance company understand the current and future medical needs of our client, and the ongoing consequences of a brain injury or spinal cord injury.

We have a network of health professionals that can help with your rehabilitation including speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychological counselling, vocational counselling or attendant care.

Provided independent vocational rehabilitation counseling to individuals with a diversity of disabilities which included; physical disabilities, brain injuries, psychiatric disabilities and developmental disabilities in order that they may attain employment.

Assist clients with disabilities in the process of selecting / obtaining the necessary training and related services for their vocational rehabilitation