---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.6140"
title: "38"
number: "21.6140"
heading: "Evaluation and improvement of rehabilitation potential."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.6140"
---

# §21.6140. Evaluation and improvement of rehabilitation potential.

- (a) **General.** The services described in [paragraph (d)](#d) of this section may be used to:
  - (1) Evaluate rehabilitation potential;
  - (2) **Provide a basis for planning—**
    - (i) A program of services and assistance to improve the veteran's potential for vocational rehabilitation; or
    - (ii) A vocational training program; and
  - (3) **Reevaluate the vocational training potential of a veteran participating in a rehabilitation program.**
- (b) **Periods during which evaluation and improvement services may be provided.** Services described in [paragraph (d)](#d) of this section may be provided during:
  - (1) An evaluation or reevaluation;
  - (2) Rehabilitation to the point of employability;
  - (3) **Employment services.**
- (c) **Duration of services.** The duration of services needed to improve rehabilitation potential, furnished on a full-time basis either as a preliminary part of the period of rehabilitation to the point of employability or as the total program, may not exceed 9 months. If these services are furnished on a less than full-time basis the duration will be for the period necessary, but may not exceed the equivalent of 9 months of full-time training. See [§ 21.6310](/cfr/38/21.6310.md).
- (d) **Scope of services.** Evaluation and improvement services include:
  - (1) Diagnostic services;
  - (2) Personal and work adjustment training;
  - (3) Medical care and treatment;
  - (4) Independent living services indispensable to pursuing a vocational training program;
  - (5) Language training, speech and voice correction, training in ambulation, and one-hand typewriting;
  - (6) Orientation, adjustment, mobility and related services; and
  - (7) **Other appropriate services.**
- (e) **Applicability of chapter 31 rules.** the provisions of [§ 21.140](/cfr/38/21.140.md) of this part are not applicable to this temporary program. The provisions of [§ 21.142](/cfr/38/21.142.md) through [§ 21.156](/cfr/38/21.156.md) of this part are applicable, subject to provisions of this section.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 98-543, 38 U.S.C. 501 and chapter 15, sections specifically cited, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 4397, Feb. 16, 1988, unless otherwise noted.