WAC 67-25-060   Criteria for significant disability and most significant disability.  (1) An individual with a significant disability is an individual:

     (a) Who has a severe physical or mental disability which seriously limits his or her functional capacities (mobility, communication, self-care, self-direction, work tolerance or work skills) in terms of achieving an employment outcome;

     (b) Whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time; and

     (c) Who has one or more physical or mental disabilities resulting from amputation, arthritis, blindness, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, heart disease, hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, musculo-skeletal disorder, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia, and other spinal cord conditions, sickle cell anemia and end-stage renal disease, or other disability or combination of disabilities determined on the basis of an assessment of rehabilitation needs to cause comparable substantial functional limitation.

     (2) An individual with a most significant disability is an individual:

     (a) Who has three or more functional limitations (mobility, communication, self-care, self-direction, interpersonal skills, work tolerance, or work skills) related to employment; and

     (b) Whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time.



[Statutory Authority: Chapter 74.18 RCW. 05-08-097, § 67-25-060, filed 4/4/05, effective 5/5/05. Statutory Authority: 1983 c 194 § 18. 84-01-042 (Order 83-08), § 67-25-060, filed 12/15/83. Formerly WAC 67-20-060.]