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Feds offer guidance on voc rehab services amid coronavirus

Posted on May 15, 2020

Originally published May 15, 2020 by Disability Scoop
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Job coach helps an employee who has a developmental disability with a troublesome spot on the outside glass door while working at a fitness center.
Job coach Josh Sommers, left, helps Michael Urtz, who has a developmental disability, with a troublesome spot on the outside glass door while working at the Havertown Health and Fitness in Havertown, Pa. (Michael Bryant/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

The U.S. Education Department’s Rehabilitation Services Administration released guidance on the role of vocational rehabilitation agencies during the pandemic. It recommended providing as many services as possible remotely, including job coaching and employment stability assessments. It also reaffirmed the expectation that agencies “make good faith and reasonable efforts to provide pre-employment transition services to each student with a disability.”

Read the full story from Disability Scoop here.

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This entry was posted in News, Outside CDS and tagged career, coronavirus, COVID-19, jobs, Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education, vocational rehabilitation.

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