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- Program-Specific Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation (Combined or General)
The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Portion of the Unified or Combined State Plan [13] must include the following descriptions and estimates, as required by section 101(a) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by title IV of WIOA:
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[13] Sec. 102(b)(2)(D)(iii) of WIOA
m. 1. A. The order to be followed in selecting eligible individuals to be provided VR services
Current Narrative:
MVR is currently in an order of selection.
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 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, 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 with a disability.