ongoing support with participants and participants and their employers. This may their employers. This may include include systematic instruction. The service systematic instruction. The service must must be necessary for participants to maintain be necessary for participants to maintain acceptable job performance and work habits, acceptable job performance and work including assistance in learning new work habits, including assistance in learning assignments, maintaining job skills, and new work assignments, maintaining job achieving performance expectations of the skills, and achieving performance employer. Other examples of activities expectations of the employer. Other include direct intervention with an employer, examples of activities include direct employment-related personal skills intervention with an employer, instruction, support to re-learn job tasks, employment-related personal skills training to assist participants in using instruction, support to re-learn job tasks, transportation to and from work, worksite training to assist participants in using orientation, job aide development, transportation to and from work, worksite coordination of accommodations, ensuring orientation, job aide development, assistive technology is utilized as specified in coordination of accommodations, the plan, maintenance of appropriate work ensuring assistive technology is utilized as and interpersonal behaviors on the job, specified in the plan, maintenance of follow-along services at the work site after appropriate work and interpersonal OVR-funded services are discontinued or OVR behaviors on the job, follow-along referral requirements are satisfied, and services at the work site after OVR-funded technical assistance and instruction for the services are discontinued or OVR referral participant’s coworkers that will enable peer requirements are satisfied, and technical support. assistance and instruction for the participant’s coworkers that will enable As part of a participant’s ongoing use of job peer support. coaching and support, it is expected that the provider will develop a fading plan or fading Ongoing use of the service requires schedule that will address how use of this that the service is needed to maintain service will decrease as the participant’s employment and is limited to providing productivity and independence on the job supports for participants not otherwise increases and as he or she develops unpaid available through the employer such as supports through coworkers and other support offered through regular resources. Ongoing use of the service supervisory channels, reasonable job coaching and support requires that the accommodation required the service is needed to maintain employment and Americans with Disabilities Act, available is limited to providing supports for and appropriate natural supports, or participants not otherwise available through
ongoing support with participants and their employers. This may include systematic instruction. The service must be necessary for participants to maintain acceptable job performance and work habits, including assistance in learning new work assignments, maintaining job skills, and achieving performance expectations of the employer. Other examples of activities include direct intervention with an employer, employment-related personal skills instruction, support to re-learn job tasks, training to assist participants in using transportation to and from work, worksite orientation, job aide development, coordination of accommodations, ensuring assistive technology is utilized as specified in the plan, maintenance of appropriate work and interpersonal behaviors on the job, follow-along services at the work site after OVR-funded services are discontinued or OVR referral requirements are satisfied, and technical assistance and instruction for the participant’s coworkers that will enable peer support. Ongoing use of the service requires that the service is needed to maintain employment and is limited to providing supports for participants not otherwise available through the employer such as support offered through regular supervisory channels, reasonable accommodation required the Americans with Disabilities Act, available and appropriate natural supports, or participants and their employers. This may include systematic instruction. The service must be necessary for participants to maintain acceptable job performance and work habits, including assistance in learning new work assignments, maintaining job skills, and achieving performance expectations of the employer. Other examples of activities include direct intervention with an employer, employment-related personal skills instruction, support to re-learn job tasks, training to assist participants in using transportation to and from work, worksite orientation, job aide development, coordination of accommodations, ensuring assistive technology is utilized as specified in the plan, maintenance of appropriate work and interpersonal behaviors on the job, follow-along services at the work site after OVR-funded services are discontinued or OVR referral requirements are satisfied, and technical assistance and instruction for the participant’s coworkers that will enable peer support. As part of a participant’s ongoing use of job coaching and support, it is expected that the provider will develop a fading plan or fading schedule that will address how use of this service will decrease as the participant’s productivity and independence on the job increases and as he or she develops unpaid supports through coworkers and other resources. Ongoing use of the service job coaching and support requires that the service is needed to maintain employment and is limited to providing supports for participants not otherwise available through
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