Sec.17b-653-14. Vocational and other training services

The bureau may provide vocational and other training services, when necessary to achieve an employment outcome, as part of an employment plan approved by the bureau.

(a) Scope of Services - Vocational and other training services may include one or more of the following types of training:

(1) personal and vocational adjustment training;

(2) training in the use of artificial limbs, hearing aids or other appliances;

(3) remedial training;

(4) literacy training;

(5) vocational training;

(6) academic training;

(7) speech and hearing training which is not medically directed;

(8) lip reading;

(9) mobility training;

(10) rehabilitation teaching;

(11) transitional employment;

(12) on-the-job training;

(13) any other kind of organized training needed to meet the rehabilitation needs of the client being served.

(b) Provider of Training. Training may be provided at schools, colleges or universities, through community rehabilitation programs, by tutor or correspondence, apprenticeship or in an on-the-job training situation or by bureau staff or some other organized training program.

(c) Length of Training. The length of time required by a client to complete training is to be determined by the time necessary in each case to acquire sufficient knowledge and skill to meet the demands of the employment outcome. Training time should be designed, however, to ensure the minimum time required to accomplish a reasonable individual training program.

(d) Training material and supplies include necessary books and such training supplies as are necessary in order for the individual to participate in training services.

(e) Training is provided to prepare the client to achieve to an employment outcome.

(f) Trainees and students are expected to maintain grade averages or such reasonable progress as to enable them to complete the course successfully and attain the employment outcome.

(g) Vocational training will be provided only in accordance with an appropriately completed employment plan. The employment plan shall be designed to ensure the lowest cost to the bureau in providing a reasonable training service.

(h) Progress in training shall be evaluated on no less than a semester or term basis for educational institutions that operate on that basis and no less than a monthly basis for all other training programs and continued authorization of training shall be based on achievement of significant progress by the applicant or client in relation to the planned employment outcome.

(Adopted effective June 6, 2000)