Specialized Services

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Specialized Services

DORS offers a wide variety of programs and services that help Maryland citizens who have disabilities get ready for work and independence.

DORS staff have specialized training to work with people with a variety of disabilities, including: blindness and vision loss, deafness and hearing loss, deaf-blindness, autism, acquired brain injury, serious mental illness, and most other disabilities.

DORS also has specialized services for students ages 14 - 21 who have disabilities and people who want to be self-employed.

A man holds up a check writing guide for the blind.

Office for Blindness & Vision Services teacher for the blind Donald Combs demonstrates a check-writing guide during a class for high school students at the Workforce & Technology Center.

2301 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218

410-554-9442 | 888-554-0334 | 443-798-2840 VP

The Vocational Rehabilitation program receives 78.7 percent of its funding through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. For Federal fiscal year 2021, the total amount of grant funds awarded was $46,881,489. The remaining 21.3 percent of the costs $12,668,382 were funded by State appropriations.