Instructor: Diana Shultz, MS, LCSW

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Center for Development of Human Services

Institute for Community Health Promotion

SUNY Buffalo State

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Acknowledgement

This material was developed by the Center for Development of Human Services (CDHS), Institute for Community Health Promotion, SUNY Buffalo State under a training and administrative services agreement with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.

Disclaimer

While every effort has been made to provide accurate and complete information, the Office of Children and Family Services and the State of New York assume no responsibility for any errors or omissions in the information provided herein and make no representations or warranties about the suitability of the information contained here for any purpose. All information and documents are provided “as is,” without a warranty of any kind.

For information about this and other training programs, please visit:

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Agenda

•Introductions

•Services communities for children with DD

•Advocacy role

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Introductions

•Name

•Experience with children with Developmental Disabilities

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Material Shipped• Handout Book: Developmental

Disabilities: Web Based Training for Foster/Adoptive Parents – Services for Children with Developmental Disabilities

• Referral of Children with Confirmed or Suspected Disabilities (laminated card)

• Resource Guide

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Why This Training?• 23% of children 0-6 entering foster care in San

Francisco had developmental delays (Pediatrics: Feb. 1998)

• 30% - 50% of children legally freed and awaiting adoption have a DD (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

“Young children in foster care do not receive adequate preventive health care while in placement, and many significant problems go undetected, or if diagnosed, are not evaluated and treated…” (General Accounting Office)

EARLY INTERVENTION IS CRITICAL

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Famous People with DD

Robin WilliamsSteven Spielberg AD/HDAlbert Einstein AutismDr Temple Grandin DyslexiaVincent Van Gogh LD Leonardo DaVinci Asperguer’sHenry Ford EpilepsyGeorge WashingtonAndy Warhol

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Developmental Disabilities

(According to the NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities – OPWDD)

• Intellectual Disability (ID)

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

• Cerebral Palsy (CP)

• Epilepsy

• Neurological Impairments (NI)

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Handout Book

•Abbreviations & Acronyms

(pg. 24)

•Glossary of Terms (pg. 27-55)

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Label Jars

Not People

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The child’s diagnosis could be:

• Undetermined

• Medically fragile

• Developmental delay

• Disability

• Other-Health impaired

• Developmental Disability

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Handout Book

• Federal Definition of DD (pg. 2)

• Social Security – Supplemental Security Income (pg.3)

• Individual with Disabilities Education Act (pg.4-7)

• State Department of Education…Student with a Disability (pg. 8-9)

• Early Intervention Regulations (pg.10)

• OPWDD Definition (pg. 11)

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Community of Services

Early InterventionEarly Childhood

Direction Centers

Department of Health Medical

Therapeutic

OPWDDDDSODSO

DSS/ACS

SSI/SS

Medicaid Education Department

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•Family/Pediatrician/Caseworker Concern

•Referral

• Initial Service Coordinator

•Multidisciplinary Evaluation

Early InterventionProgram Steps

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Early InterventionProgram Steps (continued)

•The IFSP Meeting Early Intervention Services Areas of Development (cognitive, physical,

communication, social/emotional, adaptive)

•Review Six Month/Evaluate Annually

•Transition

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Early Intervention Services

•Service Coordination

•Therapeutic Services (e.g. speech, language therapy, special instruction, occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychological services, hearing, vision, assistive technology devises, family training, etc.)

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Transition

•Eligibility for early intervention services ends at the child’s 3rd birthday

Unless the child is eligible for preschool special educational services and

Parent chooses to stay in the Early Intervention Program for a limited time

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Community of Services

Early InterventionEarly Childhood

Direction Centers

Department of Health Medical

Therapeutic

OPWDDDDSODSO

DSS/ACS

SSI/SS

Medicaid Education Department

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Bridges to Health (B2H) devoted to children in foster care

• Integration of cross-systems issues begins January 2008

• Three eligibility groups are covered by this single waiver: SED, DD and Med F

• Foster, birth, pre-adoptive parents and the child can be served simultaneously;

• Child qualifies only while in care; services can last until age 21 (into reunification, adoption, a lower level of care and into adulthood);

• Individualized health plans to provide support services to address the singular traumatic events a child in care experiences

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Federal Laws

• Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) pg. 2-19

•Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) pg. 20-26

•Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act pg. 27

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“If you miss the window, you are playing

with a handicap” (Newsweek)

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It’s All About Disabilities…

Unistel

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The End. Thank You!

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Unregistered and want training credit?

Before class ends, enter the following into (private) text chat to Matthew Fildes (in his absence, to the instructor):

Full legal name

Male or female

Home address (no P.O. boxes)

Area code and phone number

Email address (2 on same computer must list 2 email addresses)

Foster care agency address (e.g., Harlem Dowling, Westside Center, 2090 7th Ave, NY, NY 10027)

Thank you.