Tina: You ask for justifications for upgrades and gps. Some rehab counselors are easier than others, yours seems difficult. My suggestions: 1 Fashion your requests to a certain job or sort of job -- i.e. needing to travel as a part of my job as a case manager doing home visits or as a sales representative makes gps a necessity.
2 Detail how the upgrade features will help fulfill certain parts of your job -- i.e. the job requires (or will require) me to keep files current on a variety of clients and the required paperwork completed every 3 months, the database can be configured to enable me to do this efficiently, making me a more valuable employee or candidate for employment. 3 Inform the counselor of the shortcomings of your current system -- i.e. the planner runs so slowly that it causes clients to wait, even in job interviews it calls negative attention to my blindness. 4 Be clear, always job related and do not hesitate to go to the supervisor or, failing there, to the client advocate that works out of the state office. They are there to serve you and their most important function is to purchase for you the equipment that will make you employable. Remember that their one and only real goal for you is that you work. JD Townsend Daytona Beach Florida USA
