Section 553.25  Disability Documentation

Acceptable information for the purpose of documenting disability shall be one of the following:

a)         existing available medical records;

b)         existing available acceptable psychological or psychiatric records;

c)         verification of receipt of Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Income awarded on the basis of disability;

d)         verification that the individual is receiving, or has within the last year received, services through a special education program;

e)         any other verification that the individual has been determined by another educational or governmental agency to be an individual with a disability;

f)         records provided by the individual or the individual's family or guardian; or

g)         a case note entry reflecting the counselor's professional knowledge of the customer's disability.

Additional information may be obtained at anytime the counselor deems it necessary to determine disability.

(Source:  Added at 25 Ill. Reg. 11842, effective August 31, 2001)