Our Services
24-Hour Residential Services
Although people with autism share a set of core deficits, many also have mental and developmental difficulties that are not common to every autistic person. Therefore, the care and treatment of autistic persons must highly personalized and specialized to meet the highly specialized needs of persons with autistic disability, ASI provides a range of services that include:
Residential Care Facilities. Our residential care facilities include both Intermediate Care Facilities (ICFs) and Developmentally Disabled Adult Care Homes (DDAs) that ensure the safety and security of residents, but which are not unduly restrictive. Many of our residents are gainfully employed in the private sector as well as supported day programs geared toward meeting their vocational abilities. We also operate a Supported Living Program (SLP) as well.
DDA homes. ASI operates three facilities in Wake and Durham counties known as DDA homes are for those individuals with autism who are more independent and need less hands-on care than in our ICF homes. Each home provides around-the-clock supervision of up to 6 residents. Therapy is specifically customized to address the various delays in development experienced by the residents.
ICF homes are for persons with autism who might also have more challenging developmental issues. ASI operates three Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) in Wake and Durham Counties that are structured to provide on-going therapy for autism as well address other ancillary health issues.
Periodic Services
SLPs are for individuals with autism who have progressed and are capable of living fully in the community. ASI provides a supported living program (SLP) in which the individual with autism lives independently in his or her own apartment, holding a job and/or going to school with regular monitoring by an ASI professional to ensure safety, security, and continuing progress.
ASI has an array of periodic services which may be provided in client homes. These include:
*Innovations Services
*Personal Assistance
*Developmental Therapy
*B3 services
*Respite
These services are provided to adults and children in their family's home and also support adults in our Supported Living Program.
Innovations. ASI is credentialed to participate in the Innovations program in which in-home services can be provided that offers guidance to individuals with a developmental disability in coping techniques and socialization.
ASI does not maintain a waitlist for any of our services.
MCO Affiliations
ASI is pleased to be credentialed by the Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) serving our state and industry. Thus, ASI is able to reach out to and provide services to consumers in much of North Carolina.
Accreditation and Licensing
ASI holds a current 3-year accreditation from the Commision on Accreditation for Rehabilitation Facilities. We have held this accreditation for many years in our Community Housing, Community Integration, Supported Living, Respite, and Personal Support Services programs. Each of our residential homes are licensed by the NC Division of Health Service Regulation (DHSR).