Vocational Rehabilitation

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The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) at the Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services provides services designed to improve economic opportunities for individuals with physical and mental disabilities through employment. OVR has a network of more than 15 community rehabilitation centers, called AbilityWorks, located throughout the state, which provide vocational assessment, job training and actual work experience for individuals with disabilities. Some of its other services include counseling and guidance, educational assistance, job training and placement, personal and work adjustment, and prosthetic and orthotic devices, as well as transition, vocational evaluation, and interpreter and reader services. It provides deaf services by specially trained counselors in deaf culture, audio metrics and manual communications skills.