Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 402 - SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED
Section 17-402-16 - Work evaluation and work adjustment training program
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-402-16
Current through August, 2024
(a) This program shall provide short-term services to the blind and visually-handicapped, adult rehabilitation client for the purposes of work evaluation and work adjustment training on referral by the vocational rehabilitation counselor at Ho'opono.
(1) Evaluation services shall include, as
appropriate, client interview, work history and performance review, counseling
and planning, performance observations, aptitude testing, interest surveying,
work sampling, situational placement, job-tryout, documentation of findings,
and recommendations for employment, whether for further prevocational,
vocational or academic training, competitive placement or selective
placement.
(2) Adjustment-training
services shall include an extended period of prevocational exploration and
development, specified vocational adjustment and training, training for
sheltered workshop employment, and documentation of such services.
(b) This program operates in cooperation with the workshop for the adult blind for:
(1) Activities for work samples, work
stations for situational assessment, product manufacture for establishment of
client productivity rates, and time and cost studies for payroll
accounting;
(2) Observance of State
and Federal labor requirements and standards for client-trainees;
(3) Employment and long-term training of
client-trainees who are not able to compete in the regular labor
market;
(4) Development of new
products or job for the training and employment of the client-trainee;
and
(5) Therapeutic adaptations of
equipment, devices and aids for the employment of the blind and
multiply-disabled person.
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