N.J. Admin. Code § 12:45-1.12

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 12:45-1.12 - Vocational rehabilitation services

(a) Vocational rehabilitation services are any goods or services necessary to render an individual with a disability employable, including, but not limited to, the following:

1. An assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs by qualified personnel, including, if appropriate, an assessment by personnel skilled in rehabilitation technology;

2. Counseling, guidance, and work-related placement services for individuals with disabilities, including job search assistance, placement assistance, job retention services, personal assistance services, and follow-up, follow-along, and specific postemployment services necessary to assist such individuals to maintain, regain, or advance in employment;

3. Vocational and other training services for individuals with disabilities, which shall include personal and vocational adjustment, books, or other training materials, and such services to the families of such individuals as are necessary to the adjustment or rehabilitation of such individuals, except that no training services in institutions of higher education shall be paid for unless maximum efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such training;

4. Physical and mental restoration services, including, but not limited to:

i. Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition which is stable or slowly progressive and constitutes an impediment to employment, but is of such nature that such correction or modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate or reduce such impediment to employment within a reasonable length of time;

ii. Necessary hospitalization in connection with surgery or treatment;

iii. Prosthetic and orthotic devices;

iv. Diagnosis and treatment for mental and emotional disorders by qualified personnel in accordance with State licensure laws; and

v. Eyeglasses and visual services, including visual training and the examination and services necessary for the prescription and provision of eyeglasses, contact lenses, microscopic lenses, telescopic lens, and other special visual aids, prescribed by personnel that are qualified in accordance with State licensure laws;

5. Maintenance for additional costs incurred while participating in rehabilitation services;

6. Interpreter services for individuals who are deaf;

7. Occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies;

8. Transportation, including adequate training in the use of public transportation vehicles and systems, in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation service after:

i. All transportation options are explored; and

ii. The most reasonable transportation service (excluding purchase or lease of a vehicle which will not be considered) meeting the consumer's need is identified;

9. Telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices;

10. Rehabilitation technology services;

11. Referral and other services designed to assist individuals with disabilities in securing needed services from other agencies;

12. Transition services that promote or facilitate the accomplishment of long-term rehabilitation goals and intermediate rehabilitation objectives;

13. On-the-job or other related personal assistance services provided while an individual with a disability is receiving vocational rehabilitation services in this section;

14. Supported employment services;

15. Technical assistance and other consultation services to conduct market analyses, develop business plans, and otherwise provide resources, to the extent such resources are authorized to be provided through the statewide workforce investment system, to eligible individuals who are pursuing self-employment or telecommuting or establishing a small business operation as an employment outcome; and

16. Other goods and services that can reasonably be expected to benefit an individual with a disability in terms of an employment outcome.

(b) Vocational rehabilitation services, when provided for the benefit of groups of individuals, may also include the following:

1. The establishment, development or improvement of community rehabilitation programs, including, under special circumstances as described at 34 C.F.R. 361.49, the construction of a facility, and the provision of other services (including services offered at community rehabilitation programs) which promise to contribute substantially to the rehabilitation of a group of individuals but which are not related directly to the individualized plan for employment of any one individual with a disability. Such programs shall be used to provide services that promote integration and competitive employment.

2. Technical assistance and support services to businesses that are not subject to Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and that are seeking to employ individuals with disabilities.

3. Consultative and technical assistance services to assist educational agencies in planning for the transition of students with disabilities from school to post-school activities including employment.

N.J. Admin. Code § 12:45-1.12

Recodified from N.J.A.C. 12:45-1.13 and amended by R.1999 d.284, effective 8/16/1999.
See: 31 New Jersey Register 1144(a), 31 New Jersey Register 2387(a).
In (a), inserted a reference to adequate training in the use of public transportation vehicles and systems in the introductory paragraph of 8, inserted a new 15, and recodified former 15 as 16; and in (b), substituted a reference to individualized plans for employment for individualized written rehabilitation programs in 1 and added 3. Former N.J.A.C. 12:45-1.12, Contents of the individualized written rehabilitation program (IWRP), recodified to N.J.A.C. 12:45-1.11.