Vocational Assessment for Students with Disabilities

The BOCES Vocational Assessment for Students with Disabilities service identifies relevant vocational aptitudes, interests, work values, and other worker traits of students to determine appropriate options for further career exploration, vocational remediation, general or specific vocational training, and/or employment. Projected levels of vocational functioning and residential support are included.

Depending on a school district's assessment request and the functional level of a student, the following activities may be a part of the vocational assessment process:

• Structured vocational assessment interview with a student
• Career interest and work value surveys
• Testing of other worker traits (physical demands, work temperaments, work conditions, etc.)
• Emotional and adaptive behavioral development
• Vocational aptitude testing general learning ability, verbal, numerical, spatial perception, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, manual dexterity, eye-hand-foot coordination and color discrimination)

The BOCES Vocational Assessment Services meet requirements of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1985 regarding vocational assessment of disadvantaged students or students with disabilities and Part 200.4, b, 2, vi.