(15) Pre-Employment Transition Services Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) are services that offer an early start at job exploration. The services are intended to assist students with identifying career interests to be further explored through additional vocational rehabilitation services, including transition services. Pre-ETS are available to any individual or group of individuals who are visually impaired or legally blind, who meets the criteria for being a student with a disability, regardless of whether the student or students has applied for Vocational Rehabilitation Program services. A student with a disability is an individual with a disability that includes legal blindness or visual impairment, in a secondary, post-secondary or other recognized education program, who is not younger than age 16 (unless a younger age for Pre-employment transition service is identified in the IEP of the individual by the Planning and Placement Team) and is not older than 21 years of age and is eligible for, and receiving, special education or related services under IDEA or section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Pre-Employment Transition Services may begin once a student requests or is recommended for one or more Transition Services and documentation of a visual impairment or legal blindness is provided to the Bureau. Pre-ETS must be provided or arranged in collaboration with Local Education Agencies and are the only activities that can be paid for with the funds reserved under the Title I Vocational Rehabilitation federal grant award for this purpose.
(15) Pre-Employment Transition Services Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) are services that offer an early start at job exploration. The services are intended to assist students with identifying career interests to be further explored through additional vocational rehabilitation services, including transition services. Pre-ETS are available to any individual or group of individuals who are visually impaired or legally blind, who meets the criteria for being a student with a disability, regardless of whether the student or students has applied for Vocational Rehabilitation Program services. A student with a disability is an individual with a disability that includes legal blindness or visual impairment, in a secondary, post-secondary or other recognized education program, who is not younger than age 16 (unless a younger age for Pre-employment transition service is identified in the IEP of the individual by the Planning and Placement Team) and is not older than 21 years of age and is eligible for, and receiving, special education or related services under IDEA or section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Pre-Employment Transition Services may begin once a student requests or is recommended for one or more Transition Services and documentation of a visual impairment or legal blindness is provided to the Bureau. Pre-ETS must be provided or arranged in collaboration with Local Education Agencies and are the only activities that can be paid for with the funds reserved under the Title I Vocational Rehabilitation federal grant award for this purpose.