AUCD/DDS State Collaborations Overview
February 23, 2006
Improving Outcomes for Childhood Disability Decisions
Improving quality of referrals and evidence
- Develop and present training for variety of child service providers to describe appropriate referrals and documentation for potentially eligible children [Early intervention/early childhood service providers/administrators, Indian Health Services staff, teachers, community nurses].
- Coordinate SSA field office staff to conduct intake at clinics run by Centers in rural communities and urban children's hospital.
- Develop web-based distance learning course for speech language pathologists.
- Require AUCD/LEND trainees to visit DDS as part of Pediatric Intern Rotation.
- Prepare "child resource lists" to help families identify all appropriate sources of medical/other relevant documentation for children's SSI application.
- Prepare family-friendly information to ensure parents provide all available
medical/other relevant documentation.
- Assign clinical social workers to obtain standardized assessment of adaptive
functioning in selected cases.
- Work with school administrators to improve access to school records.
- Work with hospital staff to expedite transmittal of necessary medical records.
- Pilot electronic transfer of data from major children's hospital.
- Provide "curbside consults" for quick questions by e-mail or short telephone calls.
- Conduct "case consultations" to review difficult cases on regular basis [low
birth weight, hearing impairments, speech/language delays, autism,
behavioral problems, AD/HD, cognitive impairments].
- Develop and present skill training - how to interpret evaluation data for
specific pediatric specialty areas [speech and language, audiology, cognitive
and adaptive behavior in infants/young children].
- Develop and present professional training [autism spectrum disorders,
AD/HD, language disorders, speech articulation problems, audiology, cochlear
implants, neurodevelopment background for children with disabilities].
- Conduct selected consultative examinations.