Definitions Flashcards
504 plan
Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973-A school’s written statement of services provided for student’s with disabilities. Separate from a IDEA which requires an IEP. Generally used for students who need accommodations in the classroom and not special education instruction.
Abuse
Negligent or willful a to or omission by a person of mental, emotional, or physical injury to a child, a person 65 years or older, or a person with a disability with resulting harm or risk of harm. Includes physical, sexual or emotional abuse.
Texas Family Code and Texas Human Resources Code
ARD Committee
Includes individuals, as described in Federal Regulations for special education students. When admitted, as least yearly reviewed and can be amended. Depending on age of the student and the guardianship of the student, the student, guardian, a school admin., a special education admin, and a general ed teacher must be present. Other individuals must be involved depending on the child’s disability. Creates the IEP. Experience includes monitoring schools, leading IEP meetings.
After the fact
Receipt of goods before authorization
Ancillary Services
Support, but are not primary interventions like travel for schools, supplies, etc
Appeal
A formal process for reconsideration of a VRS decision per TWC rules, triggered by the timely filling of DARS 1505, Request for Due Process Hearing and Medication because of a customer’s dissatisfaction with a VRS decision about providing or denying services.
ABA Applied Behavior Analysis
Uses a behavior approach to develop and apply strategies that are intended to bring about real-world, meaningful change in the individual’s behavior.
Be careful as to not confuse with the need to communicate. Question-What is the underlying issue with the non social behavior.
Arranged Service
Payment method used on a service record to describe a good or service that will be purchased by some source other than TWC-VRS.
Comparable benefit?
Asset Discovery
The process used to collect information about a customer in Project SEARCH.
Assets
What a business owns or legally due, such as equipment and property, including all cash the business has currently.
Assistive Technology Device
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, to increase, maintain or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
Assistive Technology Services
Services that directly assists an individual with a disability in the selection, or use of an assistive technology device.
Evaluation including functional needs, purchasing, selecting, coordination, training or technical assistive with families or professionals
Audiological Service
Evaluation, treatment, and services of hearing, balance or related disorders
Autism or Aspersburger Disorder
Neurodevelopmental disorder by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts,
Social reciprocity, nonverbal communicative behaviors, relationship issues. DSM
Balance Sheet
Financial document in a business plan, it lists the current assests and liabilities of the business
Begin Date
Date that the service is expected to start, must be after the SA is complete
Behavior Management
A set of coordinated services that provide an individual with specialized interventions designed to increase adaptive behaviors and to reduce maladaptive or socially unacceptable behaviors.
Benchmarks Specific Employment
Related results achieved as a customer progresses through the job placement or supported employment processes.
benefits Planning
Process of reviewing a customer’s CC and other benefits to determine the impact of employment and to develop strategies to ensure that the customer gains resources to address lost benefits or understands reporting requirements to keep benefits. Social Security
Benefits Planning Query (BPQY)
Provides information on the type of SSI/SSDI benefit, amount of cash benefit, overpayment status, medical review date, health insurance, work incentives used, non-certified yearly total of earnings, and more.
Benefits Subject Matter Resource Staff
VRS staff that provides information and technical assistance about federal benefits and work incentives.
Benefits Summary and Analysis (BSA)
A written document, generated by a community work incentive coordinator that provides in-depth information about all publicly funded benefits that a customer receives.
Best Value Purchasing
A purchasing decision that is based on a balance between quality, timeliness, service after the sale, and cost.
Blind Children’s Program
HHSC, Provides Rehab services for blind and visually impaired can 0-22 years of age and their families to assist the child to develop the concepts and skills needed to realize their full potential.
Blind Children’s Vocational Discovery and Development Program.
Break-Even Analysis
A determination of how many sales should be made before the cost of the business is paid.
Bundled Employment Services
a package of services purchased for employment services providers. Bundled Job Placement
Business Account Manager
A designated VR staff person working with a specific business as the primary point of contact.
Business Enterprises of Texas
Serves LB people by training them for careers managing food services facilities throughout Texas. Texas Labor Code authorizes TWC to administer the BET program in accordance with the provisions of the Randolph-Sheppard Act.
Business Log
Located in the business tracking tool, is a description of all services VR has or will provide with specific businesses
Business Plan
A formal and detailed written description of a proposed business
Business Relations Team
A team of regional and central office staff members who work with the business community through outreach, consultation, and teach Niall assistance to assist and to assist with the recruitment and retention of qualified candidates.
Business Service Deliverables
Outreach, disability awareness, consultation , resource information, support, job placement and retention, and staff training and regional analysis provided VRS Business Relation team and staff.
Business Tracking Tool
Developed unsung the Salesforce Platform in response to the Sunset recommendation to consolidate our business outreach activities and develop a tracking system to gauge effectiveness and quality of service.
Day Camp
Provided outside of regular school hours-temporary learning experience.
Residential camp
Outside of regular school hours and provides overnight accommodations
Caseload Carrying Staff
VRS personnel assigned a specific customer population
Cash-Flow Analysis
An examination of a company’s cash inflow and outflows during a specific period. Looks at the starting balance, and generates an ending balance after accounting for all cash receipts and paid expenses during the period. Used for financial reporting.
Certified Personnel
An individual with the knowledge, experience, and skills to perform a specific job. Verified by a certificate earned by passing an exam that is accredited by an organization Aer association that monitors and upholds prescribed standards for the profession involved.
Childhood Disability Benefits
SSA disability insurance program that provides a cash benefit to individuals who are 18 or older with a disability that began before the age of 22.
Circle of Support
Person-centered planning strategy including family friends, teachers, church members and others who want to help the customer succeed. SSA
Clear and Convincing Evidence
Term used by VRS that is a high degree of certainty before it can conclude that an individual is incapable of benefiting from services resulting in an employment outcome. Is the highest standard in law and is applied on an individual case-by-case basis. Might include a description of assessments, including situational asssessment and supported employment assessment, form the service providers who have concluded that they would be unlabeled to meet the individual’s needs due to the severity of the individual’s disability.
Client Assistance Program
Program that advises and informs customers and other individuals with disabilities of all the available services and benefits available to them under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act=ADA. A CAP agency may provide assistance and advocacy with respoect to services that are directly related to employment for the customer.
Communication Services
Services that enable customers with communication impairments to better communicate: such as interpreter services, training in using communication equipment, Braille instruction and reading services.
Community Rehabilitation Program
A program that directly or facilitates the provision of, one or more of the following vocational rehabilitation services to enable ind who have disabilities to maximize their opportunities for employment:
Career advancement
Medical, psychiatric, psychological, social, and vocational services that are provided under one management;
Testing, fitting, or training in the use of prosthetic and orthotic devices
Recreational therapy
Speech, language and hearing therapy
Psychiatric, psychological, and social services, including positive behavior management
Assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs
Rehabilitation technology
Job development, placement and retention services
Evaluation or control of specific disabilities
O&M
Extended employment
Psychosocial rehabilitation services
Supported employment services and extended services
Services to family members if necessary to enable the appplicant or eligible individual to achieve an employment outcome
Personal assistance services.
Community Work Incentive Coordinator (CWIC)
Employee of a work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program funded through a grant from the SSA whose duties include provision of general information and referral, in-depth analysis of all publicly funded benefited, and recommendations for use of federal and state work incentive programs.
Comparable services and benefits
Services and benefits, including accommodations and auxiliary aids and services, that are
Provided and paid for, in whole or in part, by other Federal, State, or local public agencies, by health insurance or by employee benefits
Available to the individual at the time needed to ensure the progress of the individualized plan for employment
Commensurate to the services that the individual would otherwise receive for the VR agency
These are not based on merit
Competitive Bid
The process of inviting and obtaining bids from competing sources in response to advertised competitive specifications, by which an award is made to the lowest and best bidder meeting the specifications.
Competitive integrated employment
Means work that is performed on a full-time basis(including self-employment) and for which an individual is compensated at a rate that
- is not less than the higher of the rate specified in FLSA of 1928 or the rate required under the applicable state or local minimum wage law for the place of employment.
- is not less that the customary rate paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by other employee who are not individuals with disabilities and who are similarly situated in similar occupations by the same employer and who have similar training, experience and skills
- In the case of an individual who is self-employed, yields an income that is comparable to the income received by other individuals who are not ind w dis, and who have similar training, experience, and skills
- is eligible for the level of benefits provided to other employees; and
Is a a location:
Typically found in the community
Where the employee with a disability interacts for the purpose of performing the duties of the position with other employees with the particular work unit and the entire work site, and, as appropriate to the work performed, other persons who are not ind w disabilities (not including supervisory personnel or individuals who are providing service to such employee) to the same extent that employees who ar not individuals with disabilities that are similar to those for other employees who are not individuals with disabilities and who have similar positions.
Compliance
Adhering to the federal and state laws, regulations, TWC policy, guidelines and specifications that are outlined in their manual, the Business Procedures Manual BPM, Standards Manual for Customer Services Contract Providers (SMCSCP0, GMS and TWC rules in the TAC.
Compliance and Quality Review (C&Q)
TXRoc-A review of the compliance and quality aspects of a VR case. Reviews can be completed using an entire or partial approach.
Confidential Information
Privileged communication shared with only a few individuals for furthering certain purposes, such as with an attorney for a legal matter, or with a doctor for treatment of a disease.
Conflict of Interest
A situation that creates a risk that professional judgment or actions will be unduly influenced by a personal interest or relationship and creates substantial conflicts with the proper discharge of duties required by this contract and the public interest.
Customer Representative
An individual who is designated by the customer to act on behalf of the customer or appointed by a court to act on the customer’s behalf
Contract
A contract is a legally binding document issued by TWC that includes all terms and conditions and is signed by both TWC and the Contractor.
IPE
Copayment
An amount required to pay as share of the cost for a medical service, etc.
Customized Employment
Competitive integrated employment, for an individual with a significant disability,
-Based on an individualized determination of the unique strengths, needs and interests of the individual with a significant disability;
-Designated to meet the specific abilities of the individual with a sign disability and the business needs to the employer, such as—
—Job exploration by the individual;and
—Working with an employer to facilitate placement, including—
-Customizing a job description based on current employer needs or on previously unidentified and unmet employer needs:
-Developing a set of job duties, a work schedule and on arrangement, and specifics of supervision etc.
-Using a professional rep. Chosen by the individual , of if elected self-representation, to work with an employer to facilitate employment:
-and providing services and supports at the job locations
Data Warehouse
Storage of transaction history used for management information, end-of-day reports, or ad hoc queries.
Deductible
A set dollar amount that must be paid by the policy holder before the carrier will pay the service provider.
Designated State Unit DSU
The state agency that is primarily concerned with vocational rehabilitation or vocational and other rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
The standard classification resource of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the US. Fifth edition is the current edition as of 7/1/2017
Diabetes Education
Ongoing process of facilitating and supporting informed decision making, self care behaviors, problem solving, and active collaboration with the health care team and to improve clinical outcomes, health status, and quality of life for individuals with diabetes.
Direct time or services
Time spent in person with the customer while providing a specific service.
Director (CRP)
An individual appointed by the legally authorized representative of the entity to be the primary contact for routine TWC communication and be responsible for meeting all Standards for Providers and contract requirements.
Disability Determination Services (DDS)
SSA program that conducts disability determinations and medical continuing disability reviews for SSI/SSDI recipients
Durable Medical Equipment and Supplies
Equipment and supplies that provides therapeutic benefits to an individual whose medical conditions require the equipment and supplies to meet their vocational goals.
Education Service Centers
Regional centers, 20, that provide leadership, training, and technical assistance in the area of special education a for students with disabilities; serve as the first point of contact for school districts, parents, and other community stakeholders; provide for the joint training of parents and special education,related services, and general education personnel.
