General Services Overview
At HANDS in Autism®, we offer a comprehensive range of services designed to support individuals, families, and professionals through evidence-based training, resources, and partnerships. Explore our key programs and services through the links below, and discover how we can help you achieve your goals.
Explore Our Services:
- Vocational Rehabilitation (VR):Learn more about our collaborative efforts to provide individuals with disabilities the skills and support needed to succeed in the workforce. Explore VR
- HANDSmade™:Discover our HANDSmade program, where creativity meets skill-building, providing individuals the opportunity to craft and sell handmade goods. Explore HANDSmade
- FLEX Opportunities Challenge:Engage with the FLEX Opportunities Challenge, an initiative focused on flexible, community-integrated opportunities for individuals to achieve their personal and professional goals. Explore FLEX Opportunities Challenge
- Individual/ Caregiver Evaluation: An independent evaluation is inclusive of a records review, caregiver interview, or an observation to assist in identifying individual learning styles and current skills that will inform individualized curriculum and behavioral planning. Cost: $350/hour.Contact Us!
- Child/Individual Only: $150/hour
- DYAD Consultation ( Caregiver / Guardian & Child / Individual): Initial sessions will focus on skills and goal development to provide direction for future sessions. Sessions are structured to address the identified academic, behavioral, and/or functional goals of the child as well as caregiver goals for skills development. Cost: $200/hour.
- Individual/Group Session: Initial sessions will focus on skills assessment and goal development to provide direction for future sessions. A small group, consisting of no more than 4-6 similar aged children, work together in group activities that allow for learning and practice of such skills as turn taking, use of positive commenting, and response to one another during interactive games using materials of high interest to the children involved. Cost: $200/series.Register!
- HANDSmade™ Internship and Work-based Learning Experiences:The HANDS Transition Services network provides a wide variety of Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and Vocational Rehabilitation services to address the many roadblocks to employment success autistic individuals and others with social, communication, or behavioral challenges may face. HANDSmade™ participants work independently—alongside or with the support of HANDS trainers—on a wide variety of projects ranging from hospitality to supply chain, environmental services, data entry, filing, material assembly, sensory kit assembly, and more.
Cost: Academic semester (15 weeks) - $6,000.00**
Summer session (7 weeks) - $4,500.00**
**Includes community support, materials, and uniform.
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