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- Program-Specific Requirements for State Vocational Rehabilitation (Combined or General)
The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Portion of the Unified or Combined State Plan must include the following descriptions and estimates, as required by sections 101(a) and 606 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by title IV of WIOA.
g. 2. B. The order (priority categories) to be followed in selecting eligible individuals to be provided VR services ensuring that individuals with the most significant disabilities are selected for services before all other individuals with disabilities; and
Current Narrative:
The order (priority categories) to be followed in selecting eligible individuals to be provided VR services ensuring that individuals with the most significant disabilities are selected for services before all other individuals with disabilities is 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 with a significant disability 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.
Individual with a Significant Disability: An individual with a disability who has a severe physical or mental impairment that seriously limits one or two functional capacities in terms of an employment outcome such as mobility, communication, self-care, self-direction, interpersonal skills, work tolerance and/or work skills;
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, intellectual disability, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, musculoskeletal 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 with a disability.
MVR serves eligible individuals with the most significant disabilities (Priority Category 1) first. Eligible individuals with significant disabilities (Priority Category 2) are served next, followed by eligible individuals with disabilities (Priority Category 3).