Our ability to find the current suppliers (providers of care for people and families with an autistic person) is relatively easy. The providers are more than willing to tell us (advertise) what services they provide.
Our ability to find, measure, and track the demand for services is more difficult. If we are to capture the data to measure the demand then we need to consider our options.
For example, we could set up monthly meetings of support groups. Note: Some support groups already exist. I suspect that they currently operate at different levels of proficiency.
We could train the existing support groups and set up other support groups. We could use a 'learning network'.
We can prototype a learning network within our own group and when we are satisfied that our primal pattern works then we can export the pattern to other support groups.
Thus, we position ourselves (from a strategic view point) to capture data related to demand.
One way to find out if a geographic area has a support group is to network through the schools.
To: The kind people who want to solve problems for the benefit of people with autism,
I talked with Lisa Trojan. Lisa works with 'Impact Employee Assistance Program' (A contractor to Goodyear). They provide life skills information and access to counselors for Goodyear associates.
Lisa has an autistic child who attends Strongsville schools. Lisa suggested several links. I posted them on our website. www.aff-neo.org
I also discussed with Lisa my pervious comment on this blog relative to supply and demand.
She agreed with my comments.
Suggested follow up includes contacting Strongsville and Milestones.
Please send me a digital copy of the Needs Assessment Survey.
I will post it on our website -- if you like. Or, better yet, I can show you how to post it.
Here are some questions that we might ask -- relative to the survey:
How many responses to the survey might we expect ? Where will we store the responses? Will we store the responses in paper or in a digital file? In what setting do we want to do the survey? For example, send by US Mail? Send by eMail? Do we have names, physical addresses, email addresses?
Has Milestones or Strongsville done a survey? If so, what did they find out? How did they do it?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are about 560,000 people under the age of 21 with autism in the United States. (Adults aren’t included because there is no good data on their numbers.)
If 1 in 4 are female, the girls number about 140,000. The C.D.C. estimates that about 42 percent of them are of normal intelligence, putting their total at roughly 58,000 (with the caveat that these numbers are, at best, estimates).
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Our ability to find the current suppliers (providers of care for people and families with an autistic person) is relatively easy. The providers are more than willing to tell us (advertise) what services they provide.
Our ability to find, measure, and track the demand for services is more difficult. If we are to capture the data to measure the demand then we need to consider our options.
For example, we could set up monthly meetings of support groups.
Note: Some support groups already exist. I suspect that they currently operate at different levels of proficiency.
We could train the existing support groups and set up other support groups. We could use a 'learning network'.
We can prototype a learning network within our own group and when we are satisfied that our primal pattern works then we can export the pattern to other support groups.
Thus, we position ourselves (from a strategic view point) to capture data related to demand.
One way to find out if a geographic area has a support group is to network through the schools.
More later.
Lou Schott
To: The kind people who want to solve problems for the benefit of people with autism,
I talked with Lisa Trojan. Lisa works with 'Impact Employee Assistance Program' (A contractor to Goodyear). They provide life skills information and access to counselors for Goodyear associates.
Lisa has an autistic child who attends Strongsville schools. Lisa suggested several links. I posted them on our website.
www.aff-neo.org
I also discussed with Lisa my pervious comment on this blog relative to supply and demand.
She agreed with my comments.
Suggested follow up includes contacting Strongsville and Milestones.
Dear Susan,
Please send me a digital copy of the Needs Assessment Survey.
I will post it on our website -- if you like. Or, better yet, I can show you how to post it.
Here are some questions that we might ask -- relative to the survey:
How many responses to the survey might we expect ?
Where will we store the responses?
Will we store the responses in paper or in a digital file?
In what setting do we want to do the survey?
For example, send by US Mail? Send by eMail?
Do we have names, physical addresses, email addresses?
Has Milestones or Strongsville done a survey?
If so, what did they find out?
How did they do it?
I hope this is useful to you.
Lou
According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are about 560,000 people under the age of 21 with autism in the United States. (Adults aren’t included because there is no good data on their numbers.)
If 1 in 4 are female, the girls number about 140,000. The C.D.C. estimates that about 42 percent of them are of normal intelligence, putting their total at roughly 58,000 (with the caveat that these numbers are, at best, estimates).
Here are some links to information related to our work.
http://cnets.iste.org/
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/states/index.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/documents/AutismCommunityReport.pdf
http://quality-tnl3000.com/ReI_01.aspx
Hopefully these links will create an awareness of the need for 'performance indicators' for ou group.
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