(a) VRD may provide interpreter services for a customer who is deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind when the services will help the customer to attain the employment outcome.
(b) VRD may provide telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices to facilitate training, employability, and job opportunities for customers with significant disabilities, particularly customers who are deaf, deafblind, or have profound hearing or speech impairments.
(c) When delivering interpreter services, note-taking services, or tactile interpreting to individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind, VRD uses interpreters, if available, certified by one of the following:
  (1) Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Board for Evaluation of Interpreters; or
  (2) The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

Source Note: The provisions of this §856.48 adopted to be effective December 10, 2012, 37 TexReg 9651; duplicated effective September 1, 2016, as published in the Texas Register September 2, 2016, 41 TexReg 6773; amended to be effective November 8, 2017, 42 TexReg 6195