Serving Severely Emotionally Disturbed Deaf Youth - Alabama ...

Statewide Deaf Children’s Services Page 24parents and behavioral aides. This person will be responsible for dailydelivery and management of treatment services. The Lead TeachingParent would report to the Statewide Deaf Children’s Coordinator.Four Teaching Parents who will have responsibility of working directly withthe children in the transition home will be needed. Overnight staffing doneby behavioral aides and backup staff will assist when Teaching Parentsare unable to work their shift.Ideally, the intensive treatment home would be on or near the campus ofthe state school. This, however, may be impractical for logistical and/orpolitical reasons. The home should have 5 bedrooms, 3-4 bathrooms,kitchen, dining room, recreational room, and living room. The home wouldneed to be renovated to meet Alabama’s Community Program Standardsfor facility certification and the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)regulations for equipment such as signal systems for phones, fire alarms,doorbells, etc. A van will need to be readily available for transportation forappointments, recreational activities, and so forth.As program participants become more stable and able to better cope,reintegration into the general community becomes the goal. For somechildren, this will mean mainstreaming into the general campus life of thestate school. This process should be gradual and individualized. It would