AUTISM

 

Job Coaching: Work, volunteer and apprenticeship experiences.

Includes activities to support:

  • Stabilization with job

  • Social abilities, essentials and independence at the job

  • Job Satisfaction

  • Social skills training, practice scripts and social autopsy

  • Monitoring job performance

  • Assessment of interests, strengths, and opportunities for employment

  • Training in activities to secure and sustain employment: interviewing skills, workplace etiquette, workplace culture, travel training

  • Job development

  • Supports at the worksite

Life Skills Coach: Improvement and/or retention of skills and provide necessary support to achieve personal outcomes that enhance the individual’s ability to live in their community as specified in the individual service plan.

  • Instruction and training in one or more needed areas

  • Implementation of strategies to address needs identified in the individual service plan

  • Implementation of recommendations for speech, communication, social skills, leisure/recreation skills

  • Provide training or practice in the basic consumer skills like: banking, bufgeting, and shopping

  • Provide instruction and training in one of more need areas to enhance the person’s ability to live independently in their own home, and enhance the individual’s ability to access in the community

  • Assist the individual to complete daily living activities, including personal care and assistance to access other community resources

Community Mentor: Assistance necessary to meet the individual’s day to day activities and daily needs and to reasonably assure adequate support at home and in the community to carry out personal outcomes.

  • Providing social interactions

  • Assistance to or supervising the individual with suck tasks as light housekeeping, meal preparations, laundry, or shopping

  • Assistance to access and attend community activities such as accompanying the individual while traveling to activities or helping the individual to access leisure activities.

Respite: Services provided to individuals unable to care for themselves, and to provide relief of those persons normally providing care.

Individual Goods and Services: Services, equipment or supplies that will provide direct benefit to the individual and support specific outcomes identified in the individual plan. The service, equipment or supply must either reduce the reliance of the individual on other paid supports, be directly related to the health and/or safety of the individual in their home. Enhance the individual’s ability to be integrated into the community, provide resources to expand self-advocacy skills and knowledge. This service does not cover any purchases of meals or food. Must be pre-approved by case manager.

Assistive Technology: An item, piece of equipment, or product system, that is used to increase maintain, or improve functional capabilities of participants. Assistive technology includes:

  • Evaluation of the technology needs including a functional evaluation

  • Services consisting of purchasing, leasing or otherwise providing

  • Selecting, designing, fitting, customizing, adapting, applying, maintaining, repairing, or preplacing assistive technology devices.

  • Coordination and use of necessary therapies, interventions, or services

  • Training for the participant, family member and other individuals who provide services.