Vocational Implications Overview
This section of the Medical EPSS is intended to assist VR&E, VRCs and ECs with identifying Vocational Impediments and Common Functional Limitations of Veterans. The information is highly applicable to anyone working with persons who experience disabling conditions. It provides pertinent information about specific disabilities that will aid VR&E, VRCs and ECs with providing appropriate services. The information from this section of the Medical EPSS was taken from the Disability Handbook - 2012 Edition.
Vocational Implications
- Affective Disorders
- Aging and Disability
- Albinism
- Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disabilities
- Allergies
- Amputations
- Arthritis
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Asthma
- Autism (Adult)
- Burns
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disorders
- Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy
- Delusional (Paranoid) Disorders
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Eating Disorders
- Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Hearing Impairments
- Hemophilia
- H.I.V. (AIDS)
- Learning Disorders
- Low Back Pain, Chronic
- Mental Retardation - Intellectual Disability
- Motor Neuron Diseases
- Movement Disorders
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Obesity
- Pain
- Personality Disorders
- Post-Polio Syndrome
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Renal-Kidney Disease
- Respiratory Disorders
- Schizophrenic Disorders
- Seizure Disorder (Epilepsy)
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Sleep Disorders
- Spina Bifida - Myelomeningocele
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairments