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Plan: Virginia PYs 2024-2027
Combined Plan C

Section: Vocational Rehabilitation Program (Blind)

Narrative: i. 4.

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  • Program-Specific Requirements for State Vocational Rehabilitation (Blind)

    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.

    • i. Comprehensive System of Personnel Development.

      In accordance with the requirements in Section 101(a)(7) of the Rehabilitation Act, the VR agency must develop and maintain annually a description (consistent with the purposes of the Rehabilitation Act) of the VR agency’s comprehensive system of personnel development, which shall include a description of the procedures and activities the State VR agency will undertake to ensure it has an adequate supply of qualified State rehabilitation professionals and paraprofessionals that provides the following:

i. 4. Method(s) the VR agency uses to ensure that personnel are able to communicate in appropriate modes of communication with or in the native language of applicants or eligible individuals who have limited English speaking ability.

View corresponding narrative from PYs 2022-2023 (Mod)

Current Narrative:

DBVI ensures that staff and individuals who apply for or are eligible for VR services who are blind, vision impaired, or deafblind and/or have other disabilities or have limited English speaking abilities are provided with accommodations to address appropriate modes of communication. Examples include, but are not limited to, interpreters, forms provided in various languages, the use of electronic media, braille, and translators to facilitate communication; DBVI purchases interpreter and translator services at the local level as needed. Upon request, all written materials may be translated into the individual's preferred language. 

At this time, DBVI's website is being updated and modernized for ease of understanding, the current iteration of DBVI services and divisions, etc. As a part of this website modernization effort, DBVI will follow it's policy surrounding language access for individuals with print disabilities or whose native language is not English.