34CFR Section 361.48 requires the Department for the Blind to develop and maintain current policies covering the nature and scope and the criteria under which each service is provided.
A. Nature and Scope
The Department will provide personal assistance services to individuals when these services are necessary to achieve an employment outcome. Personal assistance services must be 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.
Personal assistance services may include: training and managing, supervising, and directing personal assistance services.
B. Criteria
The individual and the counselor will jointly plan the type and extent of personal assistance services consistent with the individual’s informed choice. Personal assistance services will be provided only while the individual is receiving other core vocational rehabilitation services. Comparable services and benefits will be utilized to the maximum extent appropriate.
Revised: 08/10/01