New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 45 - DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
Subchapter 1 - PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS
Section 12:45-1.6 - Comprehensive assessment
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 12:45-1.6
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) A comprehensive assessment of the unique strengths, resources, priorities, interest, and needs, including the need for supported employment, of an eligible individual to make a determination of the goals, objectives, nature and scope of vocational rehabilitation services to be included in the individualized plan for employment of the individual will be conducted. The comprehensive assessment:
1. Is limited to information that is necessary to
identify the rehabilitation needs of the individual and to develop the
rehabilitation program of the individual;
2. Uses, as the primary source of such information
to the maximum extent possible and appropriate and in accordance with
confidentiality requirements:
i. Existing
information; and
ii. Such information as
can be provided by the individual and where appropriate, by the family of the
individual;
3. May include,
to the degree needed to make such a determination, an assessment of the personality,
interest, interpersonal skills, intelligence, related functional capacities,
educational achievements, work experience, vocational aptitudes, personal and social
adjustments of and employment opportunities for the individual, and the medical,
psychiatric, psychological, and other pertinent vocational, educational, cultural,
social, recreational, and environmental factors, that affect the employment and
rehabilitation needs of the individual;
4. May include an appraisal of the patterns of
work behavior of 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 to assess and develop the capacities of the individuals to perform
adequately in a work environment; and
5.
May provide rehabilitation technology services, where appropriate, to an individual
with a disability to assess and develop the capacities of the individual to perform
in a work environment.
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