Vocational
Rehabilitation Consultants Services
 Forensic & Expert
Witness:
Expert opinion services in vocational rehabilitation
encompassing worker compensation, personal injury,
long-term disability, marriage dissolution, earning
capacity, and employment-related matters. Work is
performed in personal injury litigation, in Superior
Court, and at the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals.
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Vocational Evaluation:
To conduct a work-related evaluation, vocational
expertise evaluates education, training, skills,
demonstrated abilities, work history, and age. Critique
of additional factors occurs, specific to the client:
physical, mental, emotional, learning, cognitive, and
cultural. Specific to employment-related matters, the
evaluation of job search capabilities, transferable
skills, trainability, wage & benefit potential, and
participation in return to work efforts (motivation) is
assessed. Adjustment to disability or loss issues is
evaluated, and access/barriers to employment are
identified. Work performed in worker compensation cases,
long-term disability, marriage dissolution, or career
counseling.
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Vocational Rehabilitation Services:
Services are provided to an individual who requires
services due to an accident, injury, or disabling
condition. An assessment is conducted to determine
limitations and capabilities regarding work. Barriers or
limitations as a result of the disabling condition are
addressed and recommendations are made. A Plan is
developed to return the individual back to the work
force in keeping with medical, psychiatric,
psychological or environmental factors. This may include
ergonomic accommodations, on-the-job training, academic
training, acquisition of certification/degree, or other
specific work-reentry needs. Monitoring of the
completion of the retraining plan occurs with specific
request (primarily worker compensation). Time & cost
factors are delineated.
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Job Analysis Expert:
Job Analysis is the detailed assessment of the
knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to successfully
perform a particular job. Particular to worker
compensation and personal injury, this document analyzes
specific work factors: physical, mental/emotional,
environmental. Work performed for worker compensation or
litigation matters.
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Work Retraining:
Services are performed to the client-specific needs.
Comprehensive vocational counseling and planning is
performed to assist the client in a selection of a new
job goal. Research is conducted to ensure reasonable
success with any barriers, including remedial services,
identified. Work performed in worker compensation,
long-term disability, marriage dissolution, and
individual career counseling.
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Earning Capacity Evaluation:
This evaluation occurs when an interruption or new event
in wage earning capacity is experienced by an
individual. Prior earning history is identified, and
comparison is made to present and future wage & benefit
earning potential. This can be for actual or projected
careers. Work performed for litigation purposes.
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Labor Market Evaluation:
This research is performed to analyze career or work
factors including entry level work, transitional work,
or advancement opportunities. Data are gathered from
reliable sources specific to work skills, education,
training, license, certification, hiring trends, skill
transferability, physical requirements, mental/cognitive
requirements, environmental factors, wage & benefits,
and future advancement or lost capacity. Work performed
as part of work retraining, or specific to litigation
purposes.
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Disability Evaluation:
Expertise is needed when an injury or accident occurs to
interrupt an individual’s ability to engage in work.
This evaluation analyzes the prior work & earning
pattern. It may analyze psychological aspects of job
loss, chronic pain, adaptation to loss issues and
mitigation factors. The impact of the injury/accident
condition(s) is assessed in relation to the economic
impact of impaired earning capacity, retraining, or
retirement. Work performed for litigation matters.
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Vocational Testing:
Testing is referred to specific practitioners to
evaluate aptitude, abilities, interest, temperament,
academic, intelligence, specific skill set or work
samples, psychological or neuropsychological factors.
The Physical Capacity Evaluation determines work
strength and endurance factors; it can include a driving
capacity evaluation. Other need-specific tests can be
conducted and include work skills, work productivity,
work behavior or job readiness. Work is performed for
worker compensation or litigation matters.
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Bilingual Language Abilities:
Experience and expertise is able to be offered in
vocational counseling services or in vocational
rehabilitation services to Spanish-speaking individuals.
This includes the ability to adapt to various dialects
and educational levels of the individual, and the
cultural implications.
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