HKS Transition Newsletter
Featured Topics for September 2021
Functional Skills Enrichment
The Attainment Curriculum, Pre-Voc 1, 2 and 3
Task-Related Skills Practiced:
- Sorting, assembling, or packaging according to instruction
- Working steadily
- Completing a task
- Coordinating steps
- Pattern recognition
- Counting
- Matching
Soft Skills Practiced:
- Attending over time
- Working with others
- Asking for help as needed
- Keeping hands to oneself
- Staying on task
These classes are held daily and are supervised by Lanier Corbitt and Lori Upchurch.
Sorting Spoons
Audrey sorts metal and wooden spoons into a silverware tray.
Assembly and Packaging
Josh assembles pencils with erasers and packages three to each container.
Assembling Clips
With assistance, Kaitlyn assembles colored clips onto a ring.
Applying for Medicaid Waiver (can be completed at the age of 14)
How to Complete an Application
Those seeking services for persons with intellectual disabilities through ADMH should:
- Contact the Division of Developmental Disabilities Call Center at 1-800-361-4491.
- Within the next business day, an initial contact form will be faxed to the local designated 310 agency (case management agency) or other designated point of entry.
- Once contacted by the 310 agency, you will need to do the following:
- Describe the needs and preferences of the applicant (the person for whom services are being requested).
- Provide information on the applicant’s current situation, personal and family history, and Medicaid eligibility status.
- Additional information to be completed by the designated 310 agency:
- Criticality summary completed within 90 days of application;
- A psychological evaluation with the IQ range of the applicant (IQ score below 70 documented by a standardized intelligence test) including a review of all past intellectual assessments and IQ scores;
- Documentation that the applicant has challenges with adaptive functioning (significant limitations in the applicant’s effectiveness in meeting the standards of maturation, learning, personal independence, and/or social responsibility that are expected for his/her age level and cultural group, as determined by clinical assessment, and usually, standardized scales) such as the ICAP (Inventory for Client and Agency Planning); When there is cause to question the ICAP score, an additional clinical adaptive functioning assessment and other documentation may be requested;
- Documentation that the applicant’s level of adaptive and intellectual functioning occurred prior to the age of 18 (developmental history).
- The 310 agency will submit the completed informational packet for review to the regional community services office that serves the applicant’s county and, if approved, the applicant’s name will be placed on the waiting list. ADMH will make a determination of eligibility within 30 days of the receipt of the completed application. Note: the date of application, is the day a completed packet is received at the regional community services office.
Lori Upchurch, Transition Counselor
This is the first monthly newsletter for the HKS School Year 2021-2022. The newsletter will feature an instructional area in the Transition Department, as well as important topics in planning for the future of your child. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me. It is never too early to start planning!
Email: upchurch.lori@aidb.org
Website: aidb.org
Location: 1101 Fort Lashley Avenue, Talladega, AL, USA
Phone: (256)761-3636