[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR377.5]

[Page 415-416]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
            REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 377--DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS TO INCREASE CLIENT CHOICE PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec.  377.5  What definitions apply?

    (a) Definitions in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the 
Act). The following terms used in this part are defined in the Act:
    Client or eligible client means an individual with a disability who 
is not currently receiving services under an individualized written 
rehabilitation program established through a designated State unit. 
(Section 802(g)(8) of the Act)
    Individual with a disability means any individual who--
    (1) Has a physical or mental impairment that for that individual 
constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment; and
    (2) Can benefit in terms of an employment outcome from vocational 
rehabilitation services provided pursuant to title I, III, VI, or VIII 
of the Act. (Section 7(8)(A) of the Act)
    Individual with a severe disability means an individual with a 
disability--
    (1) Who has a severe physical or mental impairment that seriously 
limits one or more functional capacities (such as mobility, 
communication, self-care, self-direction, interpersonal skills, work 
tolerance, or work skills) in terms of an employment outcome;
    (2) Whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require 
multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of 
time; and
    (3) Who has one or more physical or mental disabilities resulting 
from amputation, arthritis, autism, blindness, burn injury, cancer, 
cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, head injury, heart disease, 
hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, mental 
retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, 
musculo-skeletal disorders, neurological disorders (including stroke and 
epilepsy), spinal cord conditions (including paraplegia and 
quadriplegia), sickle cell anemia, specific learning disability, end-
stage renal disease, or another disability or combination of 
disabilities determined on the basis of an assessment for determining 
eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs to cause comparable 
substantial functional limitation. (Section 7(15)(A) of the Act)
    State means each of the several States of the United States, the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau (until the Compact of Free 
Association with Palau takes effect). (Section 7(16) of the Act)

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    Vocational rehabilitation services means the services authorized in 
section 103(a) of the Act. (Section 103(a) of the Act)
    (b) Definitions in EDGAR. (1) The following terms used in this part 
are defined in 34 CFR 77.1:
    Applicant
    Application
    Award
    Budget period
    Department
    EDGAR
    Nonprofit
    Project
    Project period
    Public
    Secretary
    (2) The following terms used in this part are defined in 34 CFR 
74.3:
    Grant
    Grantee
    (c) Other definitions. The following definitions also apply to this 
part:
    Employment outcome means entering or retaining full-time or, if 
appropriate, part-time competitive employment in the integrated labor 
market, the practice of a profession, self-employment, homemaking, farm 
or family work (including work for which payment is in kind rather than 
in cash), extended employment in a community rehabilitation program, 
supported employment, or other gainful work.
    Voucher means a credit of specified monetary value, issued by a 
grantee to an eligible client, that the eligible client exchanges for 
vocational rehabilitation services from a qualified provider.

(Authority: Secs. 7(5), 7(8)(A), and 802(g) of the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973; 29 U.S.C. 706 and 29 U.S.C. 797a(g))

[58 FR 40709, July 29, 1993, as amended at 59 FR 8340, Feb. 18, 1994]