Opportunities for Improving Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities (2018) / Chapter Skim
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On the other hand, many such conditions are associated with disabilities that interfere regularly with children's usual activities, such as play or leisure activities, attending school, family or community activities, and routine activities of daily living. Furthermore, some conditions interfere with developmental processes and the attainment of functional skills such that the person's disability will be lifelong.
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Identify and describe federal, state, or local programs and services aimed at improving health and functioning outcomes for school-aged children with disabilities, especially the most commonly occurring disabilities in children who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or may qualify for SSI, and including youth as they transition from high school to the workplace or higher education; 2.
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; • Responsible provider(s) ; • Length of time services available; • Average time participants use services; • Service methodology, including available treatment or therapy; • Marketing and outreach methods; • Incentives for the families of children with disabilities to participate; • ow participants are identified; H • Participant characteristics (age, gender, race/ethnicity, disability, health conditions, educational attainment, income levels, and medications)
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This study was requested by SSA following the completion of two recent National Academies studies: Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children (NASEM, 2015) and Speech and Language Disorders in Children: Implications for the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income Program (NASEM, 2016b)
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Furthermore, the committee reviewed the available literature on programs and services available to children in the United States intended to ameliorate disability. This review began with an English-language search of online databases, including Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest (ERIC, PsycInfo, PsycArticles, Sociological Abstracts, and Social Services Abstracts)
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First, this report does not provide an in-depth examination of specific pharmaceutical interventions, medical or surgical treatments, or individual educational/behavioral interventions for each condition or disability. Instead, SSA asked the committee to focus on service delivery and the 4 The committee interprets "most commonly occurring disabilities" to mean the commonly occurring health conditions associated with disabilities as they are usually documented for the provision of services.
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Children with disabilities and their families are potentially served by many highly specific programs and services, from large-scale, federal programs such as Medicaid and SSI to both publicly and privately funded state, regional, and local programs. More than a decade ago, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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DEFINITIONS It is important to acknowledge that there is no universally accepted definition of childhood disability. Clinicians, researchers, agencies, service providers, and people with disabilities may use different conceptual frameworks to understand disability and have different operational definitions of disability for program inclusion, classification, and monitoring purposes (various definitions of disability are discussed in Chapter 2)
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The breadth of health conditions and disability typologies requires a wide variety of services to meet the needs of children with disabilities and their families. Needed services include primary health care, specialty health services, hospital care, mental health services, special education, family supports, community-based services, rehabilitation services (e.g., physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy)
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Chapter 2 of this report conceptualizes childhood disability. The chapter begins with a review of operational definitions of disability and related topics, highlighting how federal programs and national surveys variably define childhood disability to coincide with their specific purposes and how this complicates understanding of the prevalence of childhood disability in the United States.
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Chapter 3 focuses on characteristics of successful health and functioning outcomes across two primary domains: health and social and human capital development. For the purposes of this report, the term health outcomes refers to physical and mental health outcomes directly related to the child's health conditions (disorders or illnesses of body systems that are conventionally measured in health care settings)
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A number of promising programs and services to help youth transition to employment after they leave school -- Youth Transition Demonstration, National Job Corps Study, Promoting the Readiness of Minors in SSI, Transition Work-Based Learning Model Demonstrations, Substantial Gainful Activity, Project SEARCH, Think College, CareerACCESS, Pathways to Careers, and preemployment transition services -- are discussed. Next, the chapter examines programs and services that support independent living and community integration (Administration for Community Living programs, Centers for Independent Living, State Councils on Developmental Disability)
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The text accompanying each conclusion provides potential opportunities for SSA and/or other federal, state, local, and private involvement to help improve programs and services for children with disabilities and their families. Finally, five appendixes are included: Appendix A contains the agendas from the committee's public meetings; Appendix B provides a glossary of commonly used terms associated with this study; Appendix C presents more information on the data sources/surveys used by the committee; Appendix D offers a more detailed history of legislative initiatives from which federal and state programs addressing disabilities originated; and Appendix E provides the committee members' biographies.
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2016b. Speech and language disorders in children: Implications for the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income program.
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