Vocational Evaluation

Persons Served

Persons with disabilities referred by the Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation or other agencies having service agreements with the Perkins Center.

Service Goal

To provide vocational evaluation, assessment, education, career exploration, and vocational guidance to individuals with disabilities.  Also, to make recommendations for services to assist individuals in employment, career development and independent living.

Service Features

Career counseling, vocational exploration and vocational guidance.

Assessment of vocational interests, aptitude, academic achievement, independent living functioning, need for assistive technology, and physical/environmental capacities.

VOCATIONAL EVALUATION TOOLS

Physical and Psychomotor Capacities:

• Driver Vision Screening Test
• Physical Therapy Evaluation
• Occupational Therapy Evaluation
• Physical and Environmental Capacities Evaluation(completed by Physician)
• Speech/Language/Hearing Evaluation
• GATB/NATB(manual dexterity and finger dexterity)
• Situational Assessment
• Rehabilitation Technology Evaluation
• Neuropsychological

Intellectual Capacities:

• CareerScope
• Raven Progressive Matrices
• Psychological
• Neuropsychological
• GATB (general learning score)
• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)

Work Impact Skills:

• Job Survival and Success Scale (JSSS)
• Psychological
• Neuropsychological
• Learning Styles Inventory (LSI)
• Barriers to Employment Success Inventory (BESI)
• Situational Assessment
• Behavioral Observations
• Vocational Interview
• Street Survival Skills Qustionnaire (SSSQ)
• Independent Living Skills (ILS)
• Test for Everyday Living (TEL)
• Mental Health Consultation
• Alcohol/Drug Assessment

Vocational Interest:

• Self Directed Search (SDS)
• CareerScope
• Reading-Free Vocational Inventory Second  Edition (R-FVII:2)
• Situational Assessment
• Vocational Interview

Job-Seeking Skills:

• Sample Job Application
• Vocational Interview

Vocational Aptitudes:

• CareerScope
• Situational Assessment
• GATB/NATB (measures 9 aptitudes)
• Jewish Employment and Vocational Service Work Sample System (JEVS)
• Bennett Mechanical Comprehension

Achievement:

• Wide Range Achievement
• TABE
• Peabody Individual Achievement Test-NU
• GATB (measures verbal comprehension and numerical computation)
• Compass