Adaptive Skills Training Professional & Specialist (605) #
Service Code Definition: #
Formerly known as Adaptive Skills Trainer, these services enhance an individual’s existing skills. They also may remedy an individual’s skill deficits in communication, social function, or other related skill areas, including, but not limited to, the following categories:
(a) safety skills;
(b) skills needed to access the community;
(c) hygiene and dressing skills;
(d) skills needed to access technology;
(e) skills needed to buy and prepare food;
(f) competency training;
(g) housekeeping skills;
(h) toileting skills;
(i) feeding skills (including addressing picky eating, food refusal, and sensory-based issues with food);
(j) staff and personnel training;
(k) communication;
(l) challenging behavior;
(m) sleep and sleep hygiene;
(n) choice making; and
(o) specialty counseling.
An individual must have a master’s degree to be vendored, and may hire individuals with a bachelor’s degree to provide services.
Adaptive Skills Training Professionals & Specialists shall meet the staff requirements in Title 17 of the CCR section 54342(a)(3), while including the new components listed.
