10/18/2024
🚨 SERVICE SPOTLIGHT 🚨
COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SERVICES!
Another service that J.T. Mummert Consulting LLC provides is called Communication Specialist Services, also through the Adult Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) Waivers. This service also helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but in this service, the goal is to assess and develop a communication system in which the client is able to increase their opportunities to communicate with others in their environments. Just like the Behavior Support Service, there is a process that takes place, which involves:
• Identifying the current mode of communication.
• Conducting an assessment to determine preferred modes of communication.
• Developing a Communication Action Plan (CAP) that outlines how to teach the client to use the new communication system (or to enhance the current one)
• Training team members on the CAP and working with them to implement the plan.
While these components are the primary means of developing a formal communication system, there are other parts to this as well! This may involve testing out communication devices, interviewing all communication partners, and even identifying an interpreter to help with translating sign language! Whatever the system, and in the spirit of AAC Awareness Month, Communication Specialist Services are an important opportunity for our clients to live their lives to the fullest!
Interested in these services or even becoming a Behavior-Communication Consultant to help us with this mission? Reach out to us via our website at www.jtmc-llc.com and use our referral form or our contact us page!
JT Mummert Consulting provides services such as behavior support, communication support, companionship and intensive behavioral health services to adults and children with intellectual disabilities.