Adults with disabilities focusing on Autism City: South Florida

Hello.

My name is Maria bahama and I'm going to be talking about adults with

disabilities focusing on autism here in this city of pretty much south florida.

Um

the first topic is going to be on education

and um as we know,

there is an increasing number of people

with autism who are actually attending college.

Some of them will require

more um

a special support

than others.

Um However, I did found out that on best colleges online dot com,

They tell you pretty much there's about 10 programs um in college programs that work

with people

that have

autism. Um and then I found this website called r brower dot com.

That's here in Broward County where I live in pompano Beach.

And they offer a cornerstone program where they do

not only teach you the regular classes at college,

but they also talk about life skills.

Um for example,

they can teach them um increased

self sufficiency how to volunteer community participation

and

I thought I was pretty great.

Also in this particular website, they do have an instant culinary institution,

which I found awesome because before I

attended UCF I actually

you still

be a chef and I went to le cordon bleu.

So I found it really amazing that they have that program for people there and

I got to talk to

chef Andres Marine who works at the culinary school.

And he mentioned to me that he looks working

with this type of students and making a difference.

Um once again I found great

and

also,

um

I talked to one of the students who told me that

this is a really organized facility that takes care of,

not only Children, but adults.

And I did find that it is very hard to find

places that offer education or any type of program for adult with autism.

Um, it's a lot of focus on the Children,

which is not the greatest because you know,

adults,

they need these types of programs as well.

Um,

and then to be an eligible participant,

uh, these are funded through the state developmental disability,

Medicaid waiver program

and you can either try to apply at the art power

through that or they can also attend on a private basis.

So I found that pretty interesting. Nice. Well,

that's all

I put, um,

the best colleges online dot com for they can find the

college programs on there And then art brower dot com has

all type of information and then art educates at 9545774119 where

they can give you more information on the different types of classes

that they offer for anyone that wants to join that school

as far as employment with for anyone with a disability autism.

I know for a fact here in florida,

we have publix who hires anyone with that is special needs and

I find that great.

I have a God's son who

has autism. He is on the spectrum. You can't really

tell he has it I guess.

Um, but

he,

yeah, I mean it's, I think it's great that he can get a job here.

Like this is one of the few companies that

I'm aware of that actually offers type of job.

This type that offers jobs to people like this.

But then I found career soars brower

um they

I have something called the ticket to important program because a lot of

times people with disabilities they don't want to work or they're afraid to go

to work because they don't want to lose their social security um that they

get through the government or they don't want to lose their health coverage.

But so career source Brower has something called

a ticket to work program and its for ages

between 18 and full retirement they can join this

program and they will not lose their S.

S. I. Or their health coverage. Um and in this program

they

will help them with job placement assistance

training and education were consistent incentive counseling.

So there's a lot of things that they can do for them.

And I found out um I spoke with this woman Melanie McGill.

Uh if anyone is interested, they can call her directly. So her phone number is 954-2

3830 extension 3119. And she can tell anyone more about this program and hot words.

And then I also found

something called the job accommodation network or jen

and basically it's a website for people with disabilities where they can

find out more information about like if they get a

job like how to negotiate accommodations at the workplace or like

what is the disabilities act and

what people can and cannot do or deny them of whatever right in the job place.

So I found that pretty interesting and good because I'm sure there's

a lot of discrimination in the workforce for people with disabilities.

So I think this website um

can really help people in this job accommodation network is great.

Now the topic of housing, I did not find a lot of options for housing.

Um but again the art brower dot com in the city that a man has two options.

The group home or the intermediate care facility.

So the group home, they have five group homes.

They provide residents for six adults each.

And in this particular group from the residents take an active role

in the maintenance of the house and they do have nursing stuff

of course there to be helping the people that live there.

And then they have something called the bark

housing which is the intermediate care facility.

They offer a 36 bed intermediate care facility and it offers nursing,

dietary pharmacological, psychiatric,

psychological up on other services as well.

24 7.

Um

It was hard to reach anyone to talk about what how like how do they choose the 36 bed,

how long do people get to stay?

Um

any information on pretty much how to be able to join the housing, but I did

find someone's

conduct information. His name, her name is chris Ella

sen far. Um She's a social service specialist

and her email is C. S. I. N. F. A. R. At art brower dot com.

Or she does have a phone number 9544745 to 77 extinction for 432.

I did leave several messages. Unfortunately she has not replied to me.

I'm sure that she is very busy. And on their website they do not state

like what requirements or how do they pick the people that get to stay in the

group homes or even in the bark housing because I'm sure there's a lot of people

that need these

services. So

um But

again

I found a lot of

Children services but for adults it was a lot harder.

Um Sad actually.

Um But yeah moving on.

Um so

when we talk about the recreational part for anyone

that is an adult with disabilities, again I didn't have a hard time again,

sorry, I keep mentioning that, but

once again,

well there was a dan Marino um

group I guess but with them

um It seemed more like

Adult but it was more like teenagers.

Like I think the highest I saw that they would help people, it was like 24

I like at the art brower dot com.

So they do have two programs that have the

adult day program and the older adult day program

And the older adult day program.

It's a program dedicated to someone that's 40 years and older that has a disability.

Um And they accommodate, you know,

pretty much their data to the person's choices and trans

and abilities of each individual and they do have nursing staff

Um up on other stuff there to help.

And then the day program, yeah, it just goes pretty much from 18 to 40

with us and recommendations.

And that includes leisure.

It didn't really talk a lot about what kind of leisure activities they did,

but

um

yeah, I'm assuming

it's like pretty much what they said um based on

the choices and interests and abilities of each individual's,

everyone is going to be different.

It all depends as well, like the spectrum that the person is on. Um

as far as you know, if they have autism. So

yeah, so like I'm really fine on that. And again it would be an arc brower dot com.

You would call there and they would tell you all the information.

Um

Again, I did not really see any other place or

that would offer actual activities, although I did think of the meat up website

just w w w meet up dot com

because there's a lot of people that create their own groups and I'm sure anyone that

wants to go in there,

they can do so and find people with similar interests and like adults with

disabilities that wanna go to a sport or they want to go through painting.

Or you can even create a group yourself if you want to on there,

which I think is pretty cool.

And yeah, that's that's it for my

presentation today

and just want to say

thank you very much and have a great day.

Adults with disabilities focusing on Autism City: South Florida

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