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Eligibility Determinations - Conditions* <br />nr.l,r tolildl (tr€. i.|t r[t <br />Another Neurological or <br />Other Conditlon <br />Autl5m <br />CerebralPalsy <br />Developmental Delay <br />Epilepsy <br />lntellectual Disabllity <br />Medlcally lntenslve <br />Childrenl Program** <br />Two or more disabilities <br />20r9 <br />2.5% <br />6.2% <br />1.996 <br />79.6Vo <br />0.5% <br />7.096 <br />0.1% <br />2.296 <br />2020 <br />2.1% <br />6.6% <br />r.8% <br />80.0% <br />0.6% <br />6.296 <br />0.0% <br />2.6Vo <br />2421 <br />2.gvo <br />6.596 <br />1.2% <br />82.096 <br />0.596 <br />5.9% <br />0.0% <br />2.196 <br />2022 <br />1.9% <br />7.3% <br />r.5% <br />79.BVo <br />0.6% <br />6.3% <br />0.0% <br />2.6Va <br />2023 <br />3.496 <br />5.296 <br />t.()% <br />71.84h <br />0.396 <br />4.496 <br />0.096 <br />2.4% <br />5 YR. A!t6. <br />2.4% <br />6.4S6 <br />r.596 <br />78.6% <br />0.5% <br />6.09o <br />0.0% <br />2.4Vo <br />'Thert perrenlages are o{ clicnts determined eligible. not totdl eligibiliry determinarions. <br />"Ar of Augusl I3' 2018. clinital elig,bdity to, the Medically lntenrive Children's Program is no longer r repnrate €ligibility (epgory. <br />EMPLOYMENT & INCOME <br />ln Kittitas County, 43% of people with disabitities are emptoyed compared to 59% of peopte without <br />disabitities.e The unemployment rate of peopte with disabitities is 11% compared to 6% for peopte <br />without disabilities.10 The rates of employment for peopte with disabitities is higher in Washington <br />State compared to the United States as a whote.11 ln Washington State, the emptoyment rates of <br />people with cognitive disabitities is significantly lower than peopte with hearing or vision disabitities <br />(29.6% compared to 55.9% and 46.9% respectively.)12 <br />People with disabilities are more tikety to work in the education service, manufacturing, retaiI trade, <br />and office/administrative support industries and [ess tikety to work in heatth care/social assistance and <br />sates industries. Disabitity-retated barriers to employment identified by customers of the Washington <br />State Division of VocationaI Rehabititation (DVR) were work toterance, communication, interpersonal <br />skitls, setf-care, self-direction, work skitls, and mobitity. Other barriers inctuded education/training, <br />job skills, availabte jobs, job-seeking skitts, and emptoyer attitudes. Most customers work 20 hours a <br />week or less and earn between 514.49-518.99 per hour. The most hetpfut DVR services for emptoyment <br />are assessment, iob search assistance, and counseling and guidance. 13 <br />The median earnings of peopte with disabitities in Kittitas County was 529,320 compared to S3g,639 for <br />people without disabitities.la This is a gap of 59,319 which is higher than the Washington State gap of <br />8 (washington state Devetopmentat Disabitities Administration 2023)e_(American Community Survey 5 Year Estimates 2022) <br />10 (American Community Survey 5 year Estimates 2022) <br />11 (Washington State Divsion of Vocationat Rehabititation 20ZZ) <br />12 (Washington State Divsion of Vocationat RehabititationZ02Z) <br />13 (Washington State Divsion of Vocationat RehabititationZOZZi <br />1a (American Community Survey 5 year Estimates 2022) <br />8 <br />10