ABOUT

Maryland offers "The New Directions Waiver" as a means of self-directing state and federal Medicaid dollars for individuals who qualify for supports due to their disability.

This offers the disabled individual the opportunity to use those dollars to best meet their own unique needs. However, it comes with the responsibility to create a plan, a budget, and find your own resources to make the plan a reality.

No centralized source of resources exists. The purpose of this blog is to direct others to resources in our communities and to provide one example of a self-directed plan. (*Caution: The self-directed plan described at the beginning of this blog is for an individual with a 5/5 needs rating, the highest possible rating in Maryland, and therefore the highest budget possible. Most will have a lower rating and a lower budget to work with.) It is also to share firsthand knowledge of experiences that may assist others who self-direct services.

Comments are welcome. Please share your knowledge with others.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

IAN Topic on Bullying of ASD children

As I have mentioned in a previous posting, IAN, is a helpful website and here is an article relating to IAN on the topic of Bullying at school for ASD kids.

Find the article by copying and pasting this URL;
http://www.crestonnewsadvertiser.com/articles/ara/2010/09/16/8049210103/index.xml

More information on this topic can be found on the IAN website
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)