Illinois Administrative Code
Title 59 - MENTAL HEALTH
Part 108 - EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Subpart A - STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Section 108.50 - Intervention modalities
Universal Citation: 59 IL Admin Code ยง 108.50
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) Treatment and habilitation intervention modalities which shall be provided by the facility are those activities required by the individual treatment or habilitation plan. They are in addition to the individual education plan and serve to facilitate the recipient's development. The activities include evaluation, therapeutic or consultation services. The intervention modalities to be provided are:
1) Speech and language
services for all recipients with speech and/or language impairments which
interfere with their educational or social development.
A) Speech and language services shall
include, but not be limited to:
i) Screening
and diagnosis of recipients;
ii)
Planning and developing the clinical program;
iii) Therapy for recipients with impairments
of oral language comprehension, production, or usage, including disorders of
fluency, phonation, resonance, articulation and oral language
formation;
iv) Parent
counseling;
v) Referrals and
follow-up; and
vi) Consultative and
resource services to other personnel.
B) The number of recipients served by a
speech and language clinician shall be based on the nature of the speech and
language needs of the individual recipients but in no case shall be greater
than 60 per clinician.
2) Psychological services to and on behalf of
recipients who require psychological evaluation and assistance in their
behavioral or educational adjustment.
A)
Psychological services shall include, but not be limited to:
i) Screening of recipients to identify
recipients who should be referred for individual study;
ii) Individual psychological examination and
interpretation of those findings and recommendations which will lead to
meaningful educational experiences for the recipient;
iii) Counseling and performing psychological
remedial measures as appropriate to the needs of recipients, individually or in
groups;
iv) Participating in parent
education and the development of parent understanding; and
v) Consulting with teachers and other
personnel in relation to behavior management and learning problems, and
consulting in program development.
B) Psychological services shall be used to
assist in the process of developing an educational climate conducive to the
optimum development of all recipients. Emphasis shall be placed on prevention
as well as rehabilitation; on indirect as well as direct services.
3) Social work services to and on
behalf of recipients whose behavioral or educational development is restricted
due to social or emotional considerations, family circumstances, or problems of
the environment.
A) Social work services shall
include, but not be limited to:
i)
Consultation service to personnel on behalf of recipients;
ii) Providing consultation and inservice
training experiences to facility personnel;
iii) Identification of recipients in need of
services;
iv) Providing the social
developmental study in a diagnostic evaluation and participating in the
identification of those recipients who require social work
intervention;
v) Direct services to
recipients;
vi) Service to parents
on behalf of recipients;
vii)
Serving as a liaison between the home and the facility and providing parental
education;
viii) Counseling as
appropriate in relation to the recipient's problem;
ix) Utilization of community resources;
and
x) Assisting in developing
services which are needed but unavailable.
B) Social work services shall be used to
assist in the process of developing an educational climate conducive to optimum
development of all recipients. Emphasis shall be placed on prevention as well
as rehabilitation; on indirect as well as direct services.
4) Special reader services, braillists,
typists, and interpreters shall be provided as required by the recipient's
individual treatment or habilitation plan.
5) Therapy services shall be provided for
recipients as indicated by the individual treatment or habilitation plan.
A) Physical and/or occupational therapy shall
be provided for recipients whose physical impairments require appropriate
therapeutic attention if the recipients are to receive full benefit from the
program provided them. Such therapy shall be provided to individual recipients
in accordance with the recommendation and prescription of a physician licensed
to practice medicine in all of its branches in accordance with the Medical
Practice Act of 1987.
B) Other
therapeutic services such as recreation shall be provided as required in the
individual treatment or habilitation plan to facilitate the education and
development of recipients.
6) Audiology services for all recipients with
hearing impairments that interfere with their education or social development.
Audiology services shall include, but not be limited to:
A) Administering diagnostic hearing tests to
evaluate audiological abilities;
B)
Assessing the recipient's need for amplification;
C) Providing rehabilitative services for
hearing disorders;
D) Instructing
other health team personnel and family members in methods of assisting the
recipient in improving communication skills; and
E) Recording and reporting to the recipient's
physician the recipient's response to rehabilitative intervention.
7) Consultation services shall be
provided as required by the recipient's individual treatment or habilitation
plan.
b) The facility shall provide other services including health, medical, psychiatric, nursing and pharmacy services, or transportation, arranged-for counseling services and parent counseling or training when the multi-disciplinary conference determines that such services are necessary to facilitate the treatment, habilitation or educational development of the recipient.
c) Recipient-based objectives shall be determined for each intervention modality.
d) Specific objectives shall be established for each recipient who receives a particular intervention modality.
e) Intervention modalities delivered to or on behalf of the recipient shall be sufficient to be therapeutically or educationally adequate, as determined by evaluation of the recipient's needs.
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