Glossary

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ABI Acquired Brain Injury

An injury or damage sustained to the brain postpartum. Further information: http://www.obia.on.ca/; http://www.bisno.org/

Applied Behavioural Analysis (also called Intensive Behavioural Intervention and Applied Behaviours Intervention)

A new word used for behaviour management. The procedures often referred to as operant conditioning and associated with the Psychologist B.F. Skinner tie something that is reinforcing with observed behaviour with many repetitions and thereby condition an individual to respond in a certain fashion to identified cues called stimulus.

ACSD Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities

a MCSS program that provides financial support (extra cost incurred) to families with children with severe disabilities.

Angelman syndrome

Initially described in 1965 by Harry Angelman caused by a small deletion of the long arm of maternal chromosome (80%) or having two copies of the paternal chromosome 15 (uniparental disomy). Individual with such syndrome may be identified by a permanent broad smile.

Augmentative Communication

Communication supported by additional supports such as a formal structure language such a Bliss Symbols, Computerized speech synthesizers

BISNO Brain Injury Service of Northern Ontario

Brain Injury Services of Northern Ontario (BISNO) is a non-profit charitable organization which provides rehabilitation and support services within the community to individuals living with the effects of an Acquired Brain Injury. BISNO affiliates itself with other agencies and professionals in developing and providing a wide range of services in Northern Ontario. Further Information: http://www.bisno.org/

Community Integration program

a MCSS funded program under the supervision of the Children Services Director. It supports children from 4 to 21

CMHSS Community Mental Health Support Services

The Name used by KACL to collectively refer to all Ministry of Health Funded Programs.

Community Support Services

The name once used to refer to combined Residential and Job and Community Placement Program

ERP Exposure and response prevention also known as Exposure and Ritual Prevention

A treatment method available to behavioural therapists for a variety anxiety disorders, especially OCD that consists of exposure or gradually and deliberately coming into contact with feared person, place or thing and response prevention or the intentional preventing performance of anxiety reducing behaviours while remaining in the feared situation for as long as possible so that habituation cam occur. See Wikipedia or google "ERP".

Dignity of Risk

The respect that we have for an individual that permits us to give the individual opportunities to succeed with the inherent risk that he or she may also fail.

DM-ID

The respect that we have for an individual that permits us to give the individual opportunities to succeed with the inherent risk that he or she may also fail.

FASD Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the term used to describe the range of effects caused by drinking alcohol during pregnancy. These effects may include physical, mental, behavioural and/or learning disabilities with possible lifelong implications. Health Canada estimates that approximately 9 in every 1,000 infants are born with FASD. Further Information: Google FASD; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_syndrome

group home

A term used by MCSS to describe a residential program consisting of 3 or more persons supported around the clock. The term group living has also been used to describe any funding for an individual looked after by staff 24 hours a day even when he is living alone.

Independent Planner

In the context of paid government funded services, an independent planner is an employee of another government funded agency that provides services of a planning nature. The planning is no more independent of government than the first agency but independent of the agency that provides the support services. In Ontario, the provision of the option of an independent planner is a goal of the Government but it is not mandatory

IDP Infant Development Program

A MCSS funded program under the overall supervision of the Children Services Director. This Program supports children ages 0 to 3 and families.

IPRC (Identification, Placement and Review Committee)

A School committee that determines where an identified child will be placed in the school system.

JCP

Job and Community Placement Program MCSS funded vocational, community access and adult education program for adult persons with special needs.

LOS (Levels of services)

An earlier MCSS pilot Project that would have every person receiving supports with a labeled category based on needs and deficiencies.

MCSS

Abbreviation for Ministry of Community and Social Services, the Provincial government ministry responsible for funding programs for persons with disabilities.

MSWP (Making Services Work for People)

Current government paper for services for developmental handicaps

Mission Statement

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mission - Defines where the organization is going now, basically describing the purpose, why this organization exists.)

A broadly defined but enduring statement of purpose that distinguishes an organization from others of its type and identifies the scope of its operations in terms of clients and services. It should embody its members' philosophy, reveal the image it wishes the association to seek reflects the association's self-concept and indicates its primary client's needs that the association will attempt to satisfy. The KACL Mission Statement reads as follows:

The goal of KACL is to ensure that all people with special needs have the opportunity to live a meaningful and satisfying lifestyle and to interact as equals in their community by providing continuing opportunities for personal growth through education, training, support, advocacy and an informed public.

OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

An anxiety disorder or condition involving unnecessary or exaggerated fear of a situation, thing, person/people, or physical sensation. Further information, see Wikipedia or google "OCD"

ODSP Ontario Disability Support Program

MCSS program with two elements (1) basic financial support for persons receiving less than a minimum income a year (2) a job training and support program

Paradigm

An individual's, frame of reference or "way of seeing things".

PTSD

See Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Prader-Willi syndrome.

A genetic cause of mental retardation resulting from aberrations of chromosome 15. 50% have a paternal deletion of chromosome 15 with the other 50% have two copies of the maternal chromosome 15 (uniparental disomy)

RTC Resource Training Centre

second of two KACL Offices which houses the residential and JCP and Community Mental Health Support Services Program

Risk Management

Risk management is a process designed to identify potential events that may affect an organization, manage risks within its risk appetite, and to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of the organization's objectives.

sacred cow

1. a plodding, bovine mammal which possesses numerous stomachs and dubious intelligence regarded in some countries as holy in origin and therefore immune from ordinary treatment.
2. An outmoded belief, assumption, practice, policy, system, or strategy, generally invisible, that inhibits change and prevents responsiveness to new opportunities.

Service delivery principle

An accepted or professed rule of action or conduct concerning the delivery of service. A clearly defined and coherent philosophy of service should include its theoretical orientation, its goals, and its model and methods of service delivery. Service delivery principles help staff to know what is expected of them. It provides a focus for the activities of the association. It provides principles of accountability.

Special Services at Home Program

A program of the Ministry of Community and Social Services in which services are provided to a consumer by a self-employed individual. KACL assist families to participate in this program but does not administer.

SSAH

See Special Services at Home above.

TS Tourette's Syndrome

A neurological disorder

Values

Main values protected by the organization reflecting the organization's culture and priorities.
Our main values are found principally in out service delivery principles. Our Association can distinguish itself on many variables from many similar Organizations in the disability field or industry. One is our respect for the autonomy of our consumers/survivors. Another is the tremendous respect that we have for the importance of emotional attachments and transformative power of relationships. If we fail to establish a number of such attachments or relationships we are not "special" to anyone. One could say we are persons with "special" needs. Judith Snow an advocate in the field for many years in fact claims that the only handicap that an individual has is the absence of relationships.

Vision

Defines where the organization wants to be in the future. It reflects the optimistic view of the organization's future. KACL Vision: A meaningful and satisfying life for all.

Wikipedia

An on-line encyclopedia accessible on the internet at en.wikipedia.org. It has close to 2 million entries and is contributed to by volunteers around the world

Williams syndrome