[CT-NFB] FW: FW: Agenda for 6-18-20 Meeting of Advisory Board for Persons who are Blind or Visually Impaired posted and attached

Fri May 22 22:04:40 UTC 2020

From: CT-NFB [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Al Sylvestre via CT-NFB
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Subject: Re: [CT-NFB] FW: Agenda for 6-18-20 Meeting of Advisory Board for Persons who are Blind or Visually Impaired posted and attached

On behalf of Chairperson Sylvestre, please see below:

Good afternoon, Advisory Board members. 

I hope this note finds you well and safe,   

I write to draw your attention to the 18 June 2020 Advisory Board meeting agenda item entitled VR Policy for Personal Adjustment Programs.  Informed discussion of this agenda item requires familiarity with the relevant VR policy as well as the resolution passed by the National Federation of the Blind of CT on 7 April 2020, both of which appear below. As the advisory board chairman, I ask that each of you review the policy and the resolution in advance of the Advisory Board meeting.  The following link offers more in-depth information on the topic:   <https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nfb.org%2Fimages%2Fnfb%2Fpublications%2Fjbir%2Fjbir17%2Fjbir070202.html&data=01%7C01%7CBrian.Sigman%40ct.gov%7C472c188847394cfe619c08d7fe5a4515%7C118b7cfaa3dd48b9b02631ff69bb738b%7C0&sdata=x5TbdXSJajffphQOADYRK5c5NzcR08Jse%2FtX3rzUNIw%3D&reserved=0> On the Duration of Sleepshade Training in the Adjustment to Blindness.  

I Wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.  

Al

Al Sylvestre

Chairman

Aging and Disability

Advisory Board for 

Persons Who are 

Blind or Visually Impaired

VR Policy: Personal Adjustment Training 

Personal Adjustment Training refers to any training given for one, or a combination, of the following reasons: (A) To assist an individual to acquire personal habits, attitudes, and skills which will enable the individual to function effectively with a disability; (B) To develop or increase work tolerance prior to engaging in pre-employment or vocational training or in employment; (C) To develop work habits and to orient the individual to employment; or (D) To develop skills or techniques for the specific purpose of enabling the individual to compensate for the loss of a member of the body or the loss of a sensory function.

Prior to making a determination that out of state residential personal adjustment training programs are necessary for achievement of the employment outcome as identified in the Individualized Plan for Employment or subsequent amendment, the client will participate in an independent living evaluation with a Rehabilitation Teacher and a mobility evaluation with an Orientation and Mobility Instructor employed by the Bureau. Services available through an in-state option as documented in the rehabilitation teaching evaluation or mobility evaluation shall be provided by staff of the Bureau. In situations where no feasible in-state option exists to address the client’s employment outcome, the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and client shall review the options available for residential personal adjustment programs in order for the client to make an informed decision. 

For training at community rehabilitation programs, the Bureau may use the approved fee schedules from other agencies, including rates established by the public Vocational Rehabilitation Programs of the applicable state. In addition, the Commissioner of the Department of Rehabilitation Services may negotiate and establish rates.  

Progress reports are required at periodic intervals agreed to between the provider and the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and continued authorizations for training should be based on the demonstration of reasonable progress and the documented need for additional training.  

The Vocational Rehabilitation Program shall not fund more than 12 weeks of attendance at a residential independent living program, including the assessment period, unless the State Director has preapproved an extension beyond that timeframe. In requesting an extension of funding from the State Director, the vendor must include the following information:  

(A) The list of skills that were not mastered during the first 10 weeks of attendance;

(B) The reason(s) the skills cannot be mastered in the remaining portion of the 12 week period;

(C) The basis for concluding that the skills could be mastered with additional training beyond 12 weeks; 

(D) The anticipated length of time required for the client to master these additional skills; and  

(E) The measure that will be used as the benchmark to demonstrate the skills were mastered.

Al

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:58 PM Maryanne Melley via CT-NFB <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org <mailto:ct-nfb at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Please see the agenda for June 18, 2020 Advisory Board meeting. There is no mention of our resolution passed at our April board meeting.

Best Regards,

Maryanne Melley

President

National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut

860-212-5549

“Live the Life You Want”

From: Sigman, Brian <Brian.Sigman at ct.gov <mailto:Brian.Sigman at ct.gov> > 
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Subject: Agenda for 6-18-20 Meeting of Advisory Board for Persons who are Blind or Visually Impaired posted and attached

Good morning everyone.

The agenda for the June 18, 2020 meeting of the Advisory Board for Persons who are Blind or Visually Impaired has been posted on the agency website and can be accessed through the link below. The agenda is also attached to this email.  IMPORTANT NOTE- This is a teleconference meeting. Instructions on how to access the meeting are included on the agenda. If you require an accommodation such as a sign language interpreter to participate in this meeting, email lisa.tanguay at ct.gov <mailto:lisa.tanguay at ct.gov>  by no later than June 3, 2020.

https://portal.ct.gov/AgingandDisability/Content-Pages/BOARDS/The-Advisory-Board-for-Persons-who-are-Blind-or-Visually-Impaired

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