Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation Center (JKRC)
is a residential facility which functions as a resource to:
1. Offer
assessment and adjustment services;
2. Clarify the client's
fundamental concepts about blindness and visual impairment;
3.
Maximize the client's independent functioning;
4. Garner
information that can be used in the development of the client's vocational goals; and
5. Provide the client with the opportunity to have positive interaction
with other blind and visually impaired individuals.
(b) The following programs shall be available at the Joseph Kohn
Rehabilitation Center:
1. The independent living program helps clients
maximize independent functioning in relation to their visual disability. The components of the program are:
i. Personal communications skills;
ii. Orientation and mobility;
iii. Home and personal management;
iv. Vocational assessment; and
v. Low vision evaluation and training.
2. The vocational program helps clients to move toward vocational
rehabilitation through evaluation and some training. The following services may be provided:
i. Vocational counseling;
ii.
Pre-vocational work adjustment;
iii. Vocational
assessment;
iv. Psychometric testing;
v. Technology assessment and training program;
vi. Specific employment training based on labor market needs;
vii. Training for candidates of the Business Enterprise Program (see
N.J.A.C. 10:97); and
viii. Homemaker training.
3. A counseling program is offered to all clients. The
counseling program may include:
i. A weekly case management
review;
ii. Weekly psychological counseling which focuses on
adjustment to vision loss; and
iii. Group counseling.
(c) The services of the Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation
Center shall be provided to all eligible Commission clients free of charge.
(d) Attendance at the Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation Center is based on the
following criteria:
1. The client must be registered with the Commission to
receive vocational rehabilitation services;
2. The client's
medical record must indicate that he or she can physically participate in the program without risk to the
health or safety to self or others;
3. The vocational
rehabilitation counselor and the client agree that the client can benefit from the intensity of instruction
provided at the center;
4. The client needs assistance in
developing independent living skills and/or exploring information that can be used in the development of a
vocational goal;
5. The client may have a specific vocational
objective, and need assistance in moving toward the objective; or
6. The client is not registered for vocational rehabilitation services but
needs the center's services to adjust to vision loss. The Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation Center may also serve
the Commission's education and allied services clients for the purpose of rendering them independent living
skills. The Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation Center may provide services to other entities on a negotiated fee for
service arrangement.
(e) A client who exhibits one or
more of the following difficulties may be terminated from a Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation Center program, as
determined by the Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation Center manager, and as delineated in the client information
brochure, if a client demonstrates:
1. Repeated failures to cooperate with
established policies and procedures;
2. Deteriorating emotional,
physical or intellectual functioning which jeopardizes the health, safety, or well being of the
individual;
3. Violent behavior;
4. Inability to benefit from further instruction; or
5. Behavior which has a negative or disruptive effect on others.
(f) Clients terminated from the Joseph Kohn Rehabilitation
Center have the right to appeal this termination in accordance with the provisions of N.J.A.C.
10:95-19.
