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Continuum of Services/ Same or Different

Similar to our Me 2 page, please consider aspects of your experience with the visits you made and explore the things that are the same and different in the various places you went. For this chart, click on the "Edit" button, offer an aspect you noticed, and then you will list the name of the place visited (and your initials) under the appropriate column "Same" or "Different." Use the third column for clarifying comments. To add a row, simply put your cursor in the final box on the right hand side and use the "tab" key to create a new row, just like using a table in a Word document.

Community Transitions (ah) || Community Transitions (ah) || So many of my students have been to Wellspring, which is a long term residential facility and other services. I have never been there! I provide assignments, but had never visited. When going, I saw THREE of my former students, all coming to give me a hug. This is an agency that helps those struggling with addiction and other related issues. Unfortuantely the cost is too much for most families, although most students are sent by the courts or DSS so medicaid or the state pays.
 * = Aspect ||= Same ||= Different ||= Comments ||
 * Part of the school system || Resource Room (dso)(JS) ||  || (Although in your cases you didn't visit a resource room, I use it as an example of starting an aspect to consider. dso) ||
 * Outside Agency || Wellspring(js)

Community Transitions provides services to people with brain injury. Same: The student can get funding through the state, although insurance companies often provide funding as well. (ah) Different: Community Transitions is not a residential facility. The student/family can choose which services they need, and they go to the facility for those services (might be on a daily basis). Some services are: cognitive training, counseling (student as well as family), independent living skills, and employment training. (ah) || (nls)
 * Parental resource || Learning Solutions

Sylvan Learning Center (Mike) || Resource Room (dso)

The Parent Connection (CA) || This is an agency that helps students who are having learning problems in school. This program is paid for by the parents not the school district. It uses one-on-one teacher student research based programs like PACE and Master the Code. A draw back is the cost about $5,000.00.

SLC also uses individualized programs. At SLC, three students work with one teacher, although each student is working individually. The program is mainly paid for by family - with some exceptions (federal funding through school districts and the NCLB legislation).

I listed the resource room as different since there is relatively no cost outside of the usual classroom costs and even then the costs aren't carried by the parents.

The Parent Connection is a free service that assists parents in navigating the world of special education. It deals more with helping parents make sure their child gets the services that are required. || Voc Rehab does not. Both agencies serve as advocates for their clients ||
 * Birth to three || Essential Expressions (nls) ||  || I interviewed a birth to three speech therapist. She does in home therapy for children identified and referred by school districts, state agencies, or physicians. This was very interesting. ||
 * Outside Agency || Western Resources for the dis-ABLED (rlh) || Vocational Rehabilitation (rlh) || Western Resources provides home modifications and adaptive devices.
 * Provides adult care || Southeastern Behavioral Health (Mike) || ECCO Inc. of Madison, SD (CA) || Offers services for mental and developmental disabilities to individuals elementary aged to adult. Most services are referred through a local school district. However, when an individual finishes school or reaches the age of 21 services continue to be provided (funded through HBCS Medicaid). Southeastern Behavioral Health also provides adult job training and supervised apartment living. (Mike)

I put ECCO as different because they do not typically have any one under the age of 18. ||