About Us

Associated Rehabilitation Consultants provides expert vocational services for accident/personal injury, child disabled cases, wrongful death, divorce, age, and sex discrimination cases, social security disability, and workers compensation cases. We also provide Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Assistive Technology expertise.

Vocational evaluations are conducted as requested. We also provide vocational testing and career counseling for vocational/career guidance purposes. We survey various sources for labor market information. These in depth assessments provide objective data essential in representing a client’s interests, whether for litigation purposes or for career guidance purposes.

In personal injury cases, we are retained by law firms to determine an individual’s lost capacity to work and/or power to earn money, as a result of an accident or injury. We compare an individual’s pre-injury capability with what can be earned now. Our evaluation is based upon an initial interview where the client’s age, education, work experience, physical complaints and objective medical evidence are considered, and any transferable skills based on measured aptitudes and abilities are included. A pre- and post-injury profile is then developed, which identifies the individual’s residual employability and transferable skills. We then prepare a thorough written report which details the loss of earnings and percentage of occupational disability and is often used to settle the cases out of court. However, when needed we do provide court testimony concerning the results of our evaluation. We estimate that approximately one of every ten cases will require court testimony. Our organization utilizes Board Certified vocational experts who testify in local, state, and federal courts in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Our organization also handles cases involving wrongful deaths. In these cases we place considerable emphasis upon the deceased’s family background, education and/or training, and vocational history to determine the loss of wage earning capacity as a result of death. In cases involving children, the vocational and educational history of the parents as well as the siblings, plus the family’s potential income are also considered.

In divorce litigations, representing either husband or wife, vocational evaluations can assist in determining a fair and equitable settlement. We determine earnings potential, and what training it would take for the person to meet his/her potential. If the spouse has been out of the labor market for a considerable time, we can identify the education or training needed for him/her to re-enter the labor market.

In cases involving injury or death to a housewife, we can determine the replacement value and costs of services provided to the family, to assist in settlement issues.

Another area of expertise is in cases involving alleged age, sex, or disability discrimination. We survey labor markets, identifying those particular jobs the plaintiff is able to perform with their residual and/or transferable skills, the number of such jobs existing and the median wages for those positions. This provides counsel with valuable information to present their case in terms of wage earnings loss and in substantiating claims.

We are also retained by the Social Security Administration as impartial vocational experts during disability hearings. Conversely, we are often retained to represent a claimant for benefits. Although we do not determine the claimant’s eligibility for Social Security Disability, our input as vocational experts is extremely helpful in the adjudication process.

In worker’s compensation cases, state, federal, railroad or waterways, we are often called upon to provide expert testimony. We represent either plaintiff or employer. Clients are evaluated using procedures similar to those in personal injury cases. By matching residual skills and abilities with available work in the client’s general labor market area, appropriate jobs, job accommodations, job restructuring, or applications of assistive technology can be recommended, as well as retraining programs. Vocational counseling to help the client adjust to re-entry into the labor market is available where appropriate. In cases which involve chronic pain syndrome, this can include recommendations to appropriate pain treatment programs, to help the client learn to control his/her own pain. In addition, we are called upon often to appear at worker’s compensation or arbitration hearings to testify on the client’s transferability of skills and jobs that he/she might perform.

In ADA cases, we offer worksite assessments, and can make recommendations to accommodate individuals, or to make a work setting or business more accessible.

A RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America) certified Assistive Technology Practitioner is available to perform assistive technology assessments, and to make recommendations for assistive technology as needed.

In summary, Associated Rehabilitation Consultants provides a wide range of expertise in the vocational field. For further information, please call or write. A schedule of our fees is available upon request.

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Last modified: July 02, 2010