Vocational Services

Vocational Consultants work with lawyers, courts, private individuals, and public agencies to provide information about job potential, income potential, employment potential and loss of income, due to physical, emotional, educational employment limitations.

Vocational Consulting

Vocational Consultant

Expert Witness
Vocational rehabilitation specialists provide expert testimony in personal injury, Workers Compensation, long term disability, Social Security and divorce cases. Knowing a person’s job potential is a key element for deciders in social security, disability and divorce cases. What kind of work can a person do subsequent to injury, mental breakdown, or divorce is critical to determinations by judges and juries.

Loss of Income - Disability
Loss of income is often the most serious issue in personal injury or disability. An injured individual may no longer be able to perform at previous work levels. Vocational Consultants assess an individual’s post injury work potential and compare that with past work and income. Changes in income potential need to be evaluated so that loss may be assessed. Rehabilitation Services is uniquely placed to offer both vocational evaluations and forensic economic loss projections.

Income Potential - Divorce
Divorce cases provide their own set of variables, needs and positions. Rehabilitation Services Vocational Consultants provide information and expert testimony in situations regarding child support, long-term disability and even long term child support. Processes and procedures are similar to those used in disability cases, only the use of the information is different.

Social Security Disability
Rehabilitation Services Vocational experts (VEs) can provide case consultations as well as vocational evaluations in Social Security disability cases where the claimant or representative is looking for a neutral opinion with regard to an individual's ability to work based on age, education, past work experience and current limitations.

Ergonomics
Ergonomics is the scientific discipline concerned with designing according to the human needs, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance (in, for example, relevant topics include working postures, materials handling, repetitive movements, work related musculoskeletal disorders, workplace layout, safety and health.) Our professionals integrate ergonomic principles into assessment reports and recommendations.

Orientation and Mobility
Expertise and certification in the area of orientation and mobility make our Vocational Experts very qualified to work with blind and sight impaired individuals for loss assessment, work training, job placement and orientation and mobility training.

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Vocational Counseling and Testing
Vocational test are available to assess interest, aptitude, achievement, manipulative skills, ergonomic tolerance, and intelligence. These tests, as well as others, can be administered to explore current levels and/or changes in vocational potential. Vocational testing may be appropriate in disability, divorce or high school/college guidance issues. Vocational testing enables high quality vocational counseling.

Vocational counseling involves the client in a process which help them focus on vocational issues such as job change, college major, return to work after time away (or job change due to injury or illness), job seeking skills, interview skills or resume writing. The vocational counselor can help the individual explore option, alternatives and resources so that decisions can be based on useful information.

Rehabilitation Services is an Employment Network for the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work Program and has helped many SSDI and SSI beneficiaries to return to substantial gainful employment.

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