Experience with vocational rehab?

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Anyone here have experience dealing with their local department of vocational rehab?

I can't qualify where I live but my career counselor (private service so I can only afford a few sessions) says they are real hit and miss with understanding AS. She told me that she has heard stories of AS people who do qualify and then matched with counselors who know nothing about AS and blame them for their own problems. She also said she has heard a few success stories.

I am thinking of applying multiple times to see if I can eventually be qualified.

What are your experiences?

They got me my current job after I had been unemployed since Jan.10.

However, it's a crappy job that I hate and I think I'm about to get fired from.

In my experience, they tend to get your hopes up....they'll ACT like they're on the verge of getting you a good job, but never pull through. They've said I'm their most qualified client (I suppose because I have a master's), but they sure don't show it.

I went to VR in CA. They immediately handed me off to a nonprofit called Pride Industries, then washed their hands of me. Pride evaluated me, made me jump through hoops, then said I was too high functioning for them, they have a warehouse where severely mentally ret*d people make boxes and stuff. So they handed me the URL for a job board website and told me to find my own job. At that point I said phooey this, and went to vocational school. That was 2005. I still don't have a job.

They did set me up with an organization that helps people with disabilities find employment, but in the end, I'm still underemployed, and it's taking a long time to get VR to reopen my case so I could start looking for a job with more hours than I'm getting at my current job. Even then, I'm sticking with my job even if I'm only working 3 hours a week now if business isn't too slow as the economy is still crappy where I am. In a great week, I may work 6 hours. I've jumped through the hoops the organization wants me to do in order for my case to be reopened, including getting a physical from my doctor, but it's still taking a long time for VR to reopen my case as they do consider me to be "employed."