Can VESID provide supported employment, while in school?
• There is no definitive answer to this question. If a student is in school and the work study program is offered as an academic component, the school district is responsible. Typically the school is responsible for the education of the student during the school day – if there is work-based learning, there should be an academic component and it should be pursuant to the IEP. The qualifications of the job coach have to meet certain requirements (i.e., equitable to a Teaching Assistant, not an Aide) and there has to be supervision, even if indirect, of the work experience to assure its consistency with the IEP.We do not want to discourage VR from providing career development services to students in school because VR brings a higher level of understanding to the process of career development that schools don’t necessarily have. At the same time schools can provide this service as an educational component. Ideally, this should be a collaborative decision between the school and VR, determin
