Section 70. Scope of rehabilitation teaching services

Services provided through the rehabilitation teaching services program may include:

1. Counseling to determine the consumer's need for specific rehabilitation teaching services.

2. Referral to and information regarding resources and programs that might benefit the consumer.

3. Counseling to assist the consumer cope with visual loss.

4. Provision of low vision services in accordance with Regulations Governing Low Vision, 22VAC45-110.

5. Instruction in the following areas:

a. Personal management skills or activities of daily living;

b. Home management skills;

c. Communication skills, including reading and writing braille, typing, script writing, and use of electronic equipment and technology;

d. Other appropriate adaptive coping skills, i.e., leisure and recreational activities; and

e. Information and instruction in the acquisition of and use of adaptive equipment.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR670-03-3 § 4.2, eff. August 3, 1988; amended, Volume 06, Issue 11, eff. March 28, 1990; Volume 18, Issue 11, eff. March 13, 2002.

Statutory Authority

§ 51.5-65 of the Code of Virginia.