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Assessing Brain Injury Needs — While Keeping the Job Seeker Engaged

Jill Ferrington, MS, CRC, CBIS
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators

 

“Following your application for employment services, we will have 60 days to determine if you are eligible. After that, we’ll have 90 days to write your plan for employment — longer if we need additional time. And it looks like we can get you scheduled for a neuropsychological evaluation in about seven weeks.”

 

If these messages sound familiar, they are some of the historical time frames associated when getting involved through vocational rehabilitation. I personally used this language often when helping applicants, specifically people with brain injury, learn what to expect when getting started with my field office.

 

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Jill Ferrington, MS, CRC, CBIS National Association of State Head Injury Administrators