Code of Massachusetts Regulations
107 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS REHABILITATION COMMISSION
Title 107 CMR 5.00 - Individualized Plan For Employment
Section 5.04 - Assessment for Determining Vocational Rehabilitation Needs
Universal Citation: 107 MA Code of Regs 107.5
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) The QVRC will complete the assessment for determining vocational rehabilitation needs. The assessment identifies the vocational rehabilitation needs of the individual and evaluates factors that are essential to the development of the IPE. If existing information is insufficient for a QVRC to identify an eligible individual's rehabilitation needs then a comprehensive assessment should be done. A comprehensive assessment:
(a) Is limited to information
necessary to identify the rehabilitation needs of the individual and to develop
the individual's IPE;
(b) Uses
existing information as a primary source to the maximum extent possible as
appropriate and in accordance with confidentiality requirements. Existing
information may include: information obtained under the assessment for
determining the individual's eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs
and information available from other programs and providers, particularly that
used by education officials and the Social Security Administration;
(c) Relies on information provided by the
individual as much as possible;
(d)
May include, as needed, an assessment of the personality, interests,
interpersonal skills, intelligence and related functional capacities,
educational, cultural, social, recreational, and environmental factors that
affect the employment and rehabilitation needs of the individual, including the
need for supported employment services;
(e) May include an appraisal of the patterns
of work behavior of the individual and services needed for the individual to
acquire occupational skills, and to develop work attitudes, work habits, work
tolerance and social and behavior patterns necessary for successful job
performance, including the utilization of work in real job situations, with the
informed choice of the individual, to assess and develop the capacities of the
individual to perform adequately in a work environment;
(f) Includes referral, where appropriate, for
an assessment of the need for rehabilitation technology services to assess and
develop the capacities of the individual to perform in a work
environment.
(2) The assessment must be in writing and the QVRC will offer the eligible individual or his or her representative a copy of the written assessment.
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