alt.social-security-disability

"Gina May" wrote in message
news:21313-46AF64DB-162@storefull-3132.bay. ...
> This question may have been addressed here before but I wanted to ask
> why does a Vocational Expert have to appear before a judge at a SSD
> hearing?
>
> Especially if the VE has not talked to the claimant about there needs
> and health issues.. so how can a VE know what jobs a person can do. the
> VE does not know the persons limits etc..as to what they can or canot
> do.
>
> "Gi
>
Yet the courts DO think that these "experts" know what is and is not
possible after they have read a case file.
Very impersonal method of assesment IMHO
And the judge will give a lot of weight to what this person says.
They wanted to send me to a school for the blind to rehab. The school was
into manufacturing straw brooms by hand. That's not much of a vocational
rehabilitation all by itself, but I think it gives the VI person a sense of
accomplishment and the will to strive for better skills built off of those
that may be available.
In my situation it wasn't so much the vision impairment as it was the
linering cognitive effects of the brain injury.
I still have a memory like a siv and there are times (especially after a
seizure) when I have trouble grasping simple concepts.