Services
Autism Services Center employs trained staff to provide a comprehensive array of services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Service Coordination
Service Coordination services are provided for individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in Cabell, Wayne, Mason and Lincoln Counties. Service Coordination establishes a potentially life-long process for accessing a range of services, instructions and assistance. The Service Coordinator assists an individual with a developmental disability in making meaningful choices and works to ensure quality, accessibility, accountability and continuity of support services.
Residential Habilitation
Residential Habilitation services, which occur in a client’s residence and in the community, provide instruction and assistance for the acquisition and maintenance of skills, which allow for a client to live and socialize more independently. Residential habilitation services may also include behavioral intervention to reduce and eliminate challenging behaviors and replace them with socially valuable, adaptive behaviors and skills.
Autism Services Center owns and/or supervises residences in the Huntington area. See "Our homes" for additional details.
Day Habilitation
Day Habilitation services take place away from an individual’s home and include activities in community environments to facilitate skills acquisition. The programs are designed to assist an individual in achieving increased independence and/or to maintain their current skills in activities of daily living.
Prevocational Training
Prevocational Training programs are designed to assist an individual in the acquisition and maintenance of basic work and work-related skills.
Supported Employment
Supported Employment services enable individuals to engage in paid, competitive employment in integrated community settings. The services are for individuals who have barriers to obtaining employment due to the nature and complexity of their disabilities. These services are designed to assist individuals for whom competitive employment at or above minimum wage is unlikely without the supports.
Respite Care
Respite Care is a service provided to an individual by trained staff due to the short-term absence of the primary care giver.
Adult Companion Services
Adult Companion services are complementary to Residential Habilitation services and provide non-medical care, supervision, socialization and assistance in tasks such as meal preparation, laundry and shopping.
Therapeutic Consultants
Therapeutic Consultants provide training for primary care providers such as direct care staff and family members in person-specific aspects and methods of positive behavior support intervention and instruction.
Nursing Services
Nursing services are provided by registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) within the scope of he West Virginia Nurse Practice Act.
Family Support
The Family Support Program allocates funds for services and equipment that are not funded by Medicaid or insurance companies. These funds are to assist individuals and their family with such things as clothing, medical care, wheelchair ramps and respite, based on the needs of the family.
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
The Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Program Applied Behavior Analysis is a scientific approach to understanding behavior, how it is affected by the environment and how learning takes place. It is a mixture of psychological and educational techniques tailored to meet the needs of each individual. ABA methods are used to measure behavior, teach functional skills, and evaluate progress.