Population Served
SHSI is available to individuals who require intense levels of residential support in a small group setting of four or fewer or in host home/life-sharing arrangement.
Our services include a range of interventions that focus on training and support in one or more of the following areas: eating and drinking, toileting, personal grooming and health care, dressing, communication, interpersonal relationships, mobility, home management and use of leisure time.
Intellectual disability (ID) is defined as having a significantly sub-average intellectual functioning, typically two standard deviations below the mean (i.e., IQ of 70 or below), that:
• Is manifested before the age of 18 years; and
• Is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning in at least two of the following skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social/interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, functional academic skills, work, leisure, health, and/or safety.
Developmental disability (DD) is a severe, chronic disability that:
• Is attributable to a mental re the person attains age 22;
• Results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, and economic self-sufficiency;
• Reflects the person’s need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.