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NARPAA Goals
- Promote best practices and quality standards through training
- Open access to underserved populations
- Exchange information members and partners to promote efficiency and effectiveness
- Promote effective public policy relating to the needs of adults with autism.
- Funding and Services
- Funding for adult services is individualized and commensurate with the needs of the person. Service providers have specialized training and recognize that adults with autism are life long learners.
- Individual Rights and Responsibilities
- Adults with autism are offered choices that are meaningful and clear. Service providers teach and support creative, individualized choice-making.
- Individualized Service Planning
- Service providers facilitate a variety of opportunities and experiences for the adult with autism, enabling the person to make informed choices in the development of their service/support plan.
- Community Access and Support
- Service providers teach and support community living skills in the areas of mobility and safety.
- Service providers accompany the adult with autism, as needed, to assure safe access to all areas of the community.
- Residential Options
- Residential options are tailored to the unique communication, behavioral, socialization, and sensory needs of the person. The adult with autism may require a 1:1 ratio to promote safety and an opportunity for personal development.
- Employment
- Service providers will understand the unique learning style of the adult with autism and will develop individualized vocational plans.
- The service provider will work with community employers to develop job accommodations for the adult with autism.
- Participants will become aware of autism-specific residential providers in the United States.
- Participants will gain knowledge of standards for residential treatment.
- Participants will be given evidence of successful implementation of residential standards.
- Participants will be given the opportunity to give feedback to the providers.
- Participants will assist NARPAA to identify action steps for appropriate adult services, especially residential.