Assessment for Determining Vocational Rehabilitation Needs

(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.