Narrative: d. 2. M. i. I.

The order to be followed in selecting eligible individuals to be provided VR services. Services shall be provided based upon the eligible individual’s placement in one of the following priority categories: Priority Category I: An individual with the most significant disability as defined below. Priority Category II: An individual with a significant disability as defined below. Priority Category III: An individual with a disability as defined below.

Definitions: Individual with the Most Significant Disability: An individual who is seriously limited in three or more of the following functional areas: self–care; communication; mobility; self–direction; work tolerance; work skills; and/or interpersonal skills, and a. whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time; and b. who has one or more physical or mental disabilities resulting from amputation, arthritis, autism, blindness, burn injury, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, head injury, heart disease, hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, musculo–skeletal disorders, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), spinal cord conditions (including paraplegia and quadriplegia), sickle cell anemia, specific learning disability, end–stage renal disease, or another disability or combination of disabilities determined on the basis of an assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs to cause comparable substantial functional limitation. Individual with a Significant Disability: An individual who has a severe physical or mental impairment that seriously limits one or two functional capacities (such as mobility, communication, self–care, self–direction, interpersonal skills, work tolerance, or work skills) in terms of an employment outcome; and a. whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time; and b. who has one or more physical or mental disabilities resulting from amputation, arthritis, autism, blindness, burn injury, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, head injury, heart disease, hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, musculo–skeletal disorders, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), spinal cord conditions (including paraplegia and quadriplegia), sickle cell anemia, specific learning disability, end–stage renal disease, or another disability or combination of disabilities determined on the basis of an assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs to cause comparable substantial functional limitation. Individual with a disability: all other eligible individuals.