Our vocational services assist clients who have a need or desire to:
- Find out what their natural vocational strengths and abilities are.
- What career directions are best suited for them.
- Identify the labor market needs and trends for the occupation or jobs they
have an interest or ability in.
- Understand their vocational strengths as they relate to a specific job or job category
- Identify the educational programs, training locations, cost and time requirements of
training options.
Rehabilitation Assessments
When used in conjunction with a rehabilitation service referral, the program incorporates a process for
determining an individual's work capabilities and associated jobs within their Residual Functional
Capacities. It incorporates medical, psychological, social, vocational, educational, cultural, and economic
data in a systematic analysis process.
What are some of the reasons for a vocational assessment?
- To identify potential vocational objectives considering aptitudes, interests, temperaments, and physical
capacities.
- To assist in determining a person's likelihood of success in a specific job or identifying their reasons
for choosing and being motivated in a particular direction.
- To more objectively and accurately describe a person's interests and abilities.
- To match and compare abilities and interests with stated abilities and interests.
- To motivate or stimulate vocational decisions into realistic direction.
- To support and enhance a person's self-esteem and self-concept as it relates to the ability to perform
jobs within their capabilities.
- To assess and compare the aptitudes of a person with the necessary demands of various jobs as specified in
the OES Code, and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT).
- To observe and evaluate the degree to which a diagnosed disability or handicap is likely to impact return to
work objectives.
- To assist in determining the level of employability of a person and/or identify vocational or rehabilitation
services that are likely to be available and necessary to assist in overcoming employment barriers.
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