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4:42pm December 20, 2013

Join the Partnership for our Lunch and Learn Webinar series


Do you need more information about what types of services are available in the Intellectual Disabilitiy (ID) System but don’t have much time? Are you struggling with accessing what you or your family member needs? Do you want to know how each step in the process affects services?

Join us for the entire series or for any individual sessions that interest you. Each training provides time for questions.

All sessions are on Fridays 12 PM - 1 PM.

For descriptions of each session, please see the Partnership website.

  • JANUARY 24, PUNS: Prioritization of the Urgency of Need for Services
     
  • JANUARY 31, Intellectual Disability (ID) Waiver Basics
     
  • FEBRUARY 7, Services in the Intellectual Disability (ID) Waivers
     
  • FEBRUARY 14, Individual Support Plans (ISP)
     
  • FEBRUARY 21, Adult Protective Services (APS)
     
  • FEBRUARY 28, Participant-Directed Services (PDS)
     
  • MARCH 7, Work and My Benefits
     
  • MARCH 14, Ticket to Work and Other Resources for Employment
     
  • MARCH 21, What Are My Rights in the Intellectual Disability (ID) System?
     

For Your Information
These sessions are open only to self-advocates and family members due to resource limitations.


Register Online

Annoyed that Pennsylvania seems to have an intellectual disability system rather than a developmental disability system.  Developmental disability is inclusive of many, many disabilities.  At minimum, intellectual disability and autism are covered under DD systems and waivers.  Sometimes cerebral palsy and epilepsy.  Sometimes also “similar conditions”.  Intellectual disability doesn’t mean all those things.  It means just intellectual disabilities.  If it’s used to mean DD, then it confuses people about what services may be available for who.  If it’s used just to mean ID, then it excludes lots of people who need the services unless they meet an IQ cutoff that’s unrealistic for a lot of people.  At any rate, it’s annoying.