Inservice/Consultation

Continuing Education/Teacher Training

Faculty at the CCHD provide inservice and consultation on a variety of topics. These topics include diagnosing and providing programs for young children with autism, common behavior problems and pediatric problems in children with developmental disabilities, functional behavioral assessment techniques, Positive Behavior Support, motor skill development, sensory processing, health and wellness, foster care and systems of care for children with DD.

Inservice workshops and consultation is generally fee-for-service, although we have two major grant-related activities. These are our collaborative Positive Behavior Support project and Telehealth for Kansans project.

The Kansas Institute for Positive Behavior Support is an online and mentored state training network funded by Social and Rehabilitative Services for professionals who are employed by the Kansas State agencies of Child Welfare, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. This training provides high quality content and practical experiences to agencies as well as ensuring a consistency of training content and orientation among agencies that serve the same individuals.

The training results in professional certification and upon completion of the training, certified professionals will be able to bill Medicaid for reimbursement of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) services. The Institute operates from the mission of creating a community of professionals who:

• Are committed to improving the quality of life for all Kansans by designing effective environments for social growth;
• Have demonstrated expertise in the application of positive behavior support;
• Are able to provide consultation in PBS and person-centered planning while simultaneously attending to the systems-level issues that contribute to the occurrence of problem behavior;
• Are committed to ongoing learning and a collaborative statewide model.

The KU Center for TeleMedicine & TeleHealth (KUCTT) received a federal grant that provides funds to support provider time and telecommunication costs associated with the telemedicine system. This TeleHealth for Kansans project is focused on improving health care access for Kansas residents by offering a variety of consultation clinics with specialists at KUMC over the interactive TV (ITV) system. As a result of this project, the CCHD is now providing telehealth services to residents of Girard, Parsons, Pittsburg and surrounding communities.

These services involve providing appropriate treatment and education to children with autism as well as behavioral and medication consultation for children with developmental disabilities and behavior problems. Faculty have also provided a series of Team Training workshops related to autism through this project. Teams are presented with materials on such topics as arranging the environment, functional assessment of behavior problems, sensory processing and language development. They take the materials and apply the new techniques toward a student with autism.

Services Offered

• Developmental Disability and Challenging Behaviors Consultation
• This consultation provides both behavior and medical assessments of children with severe behavior problems who have developmental disabilities and special health care needs
• Autism Diagnostic Consultation
  This clinic provides screening assessments of children suspected of having autism
• Autism Program Consultation
  This program is staffed by interdisciplinary professionals with expertise on autism

Benefits

• Provides access to health care providers otherwise unavailable or difficult to access in your community
• Prevents the need for patient travel
• Keeps patients, family and caregivers in the local community
• Supports local health care providers to provide high quality health care
• Provides educational opportunities for providers and patients
• Provider and telecommunications costs are grant funded

This project is funded by the Rural Telemedicine Grant Program, administered by the Federal Office for the Advancement of TeleHealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.