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PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES

Personal assistance services are a range of services, provided by one or more persons, designed to assist an individual with a disability to perform daily living activities on or off the job that the individual would typically perform without assistance if the individual did not have a disability. Such services should be designed to increase the individual’s control in life and ability to perform everyday activities on or off the job. Personal assistance services may include personal care assistance with grooming, hygiene, dressing and eating, or driving the person to and from work or rehabilitation services. These services may also include training in managing, supervising, and directing personal assistance services. These services must be necessary to the achievement of an employment outcome and may be provided only when the client is receiving other VR services.

These services may be provided through VR if they are not available through another source. It is important to determine whether such services are available as a comparable benefit through any other program. When the individual will need continuing personal assistance after VR case closure, it is essential to identify and plan for other programs that will provide the long-term support.

Note: If the same person provides two or more of these services, indicate all services.

915 Sign Language Interpreter Services
Services for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind. Do not include foreign language interpretation in this category (use code 910).
Examples:
Note taking
Oral interpretation
Real-time captioning
Sign language interpreters
Tactile interpretation
Note: For mileage for interpreters, use code 801.

916 Sign Language Interpeter Reimbursement for Travel Time
See Section 3 / Part 18 on travel and Section 3 / Part 8 on mileage for vendors.

920 Reader Services
Services for individuals who cannot read print because of blindness or other disability. Reader services are generally for individuals who are blind or deaf-blind, but may also include individuals unable to read because of serious neurological disorders, specific learning disabilities, or other physical or mental impairments.
Examples:
Reading aloud
Sound recording of print
Transcription of print to Braille

930 Personal Attendant Services
Personal attendant services are those personal services that an attendant performs for an individual with a disability.
Examples:
Attendant services
Bathing
Dressing
Feeding
Mobility support
Personal care attendant

935 Other Personal Assistive Services to Clients
Examples:
Assistive animals
Drivers
Guide dog
Note taking other than interpreters


RELATED INFORMATION FOR PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES

  • Support service provided ONLY in conjunction with other core VR services.
  • Economic need does not apply when these services (such as sign language interpreters, reader services or personal assistance services) are needed by the individual in order to participate in the VR program.
  • A detailed fee schedule for sign language interpreting is based on the interpreter’s skill level and can be found in Section 3/Part 18.
  • Readers may be paid minimum wage not to exceed 30 hours per week.
  • Drivers may be paid minimum wage.
  • Notetakers may be paid minimum wage not to exceed 30 hours per week.

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