Vocational rehabilitation definition

Vocational rehabilitation means support services to facilitate re-employment, including assessment of transferable occupational skills/aptitudes, identification of specific job accommodation and associated training requirements and formulation of rehabilitative employment plans and counselling.
Vocational rehabilitation means the process of restoring the vocational functioning of a worker who experiences a work-related injury.
Vocational rehabilitation means tests, evaluations, and/or training whose purpose is to enable a disability benefit recipient to find employment in any occupation.

Examples of Vocational rehabilitation in a sentence

  • Vocational rehabilitation and recreational or educational therapy.

  • Vocational rehabilitation services, vocational counseling and testing, employment counseling or services to assist a Covered Person in gaining employment, are not covered.

  • The workers’ compensation benefits provided to injured employees may include: • Medical care; • Cash benefits, tax-free to replace lost wages; and • Vocational rehabilitation to help qualified injured employees return to suitable employment.

  • Vocational rehabilitation may be as simple as returning to the original job or as complicated as being retrained for a new occupation.

  • Vocational rehabilitation, long term rehabilitation, or any other rehabilitation program.


More Definitions of Vocational rehabilitation

Vocational rehabilitation means the delivery and coordination of services under an individualized written plan, with the goal of assisting the injured worker to return to suitable employment or participate in education or retraining, as defined by Item (5) of this Rule or applicable statute.
Vocational rehabilitation means assisting a person with a disability to become capable of competing in the labor market, practicing a profession, being self−employed, raising a family and making a home, participating in sheltered employment or other gainful work.
Vocational rehabilitation means providing Rehabilitation Services to help a Client to, as appropriate, maintain or obtain employment or regain or acquire vocational independence, and includes the provision of activities for the purpose of maintaining or obtaining employment that is suitable for the Client and appropriate for their levels of training and experience.
Vocational rehabilitation means rehabilitation that is intended to return injured workers to suitable employment, and includes counselling, assessment, career planning, educational upgrading, education, training, on- the-job training, assistance with job searches and assistance with job placement;
Vocational rehabilitation means the provision of nonmedical services necessary
Vocational rehabilitation or “VR” means a program that helps individuals with physical or mental disabilities to obtain and retain employment.
Vocational rehabilitation means training (including educational and vocational counseling, all appropriate individualized tutorial assistance and other necessary incidental services) for the purpose of restoring employability or to achieve maximum independence in daily living to the extent consistent with the degree of disablement, lost by virtue of a handicap due to service- connected disability.