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Alternative/Augmentative
Communication - Loan Bank
Communication devices loaned to qualified DOH professional staff,
families participating as community support group members, and private
agencies servicing clients who need an alternative/augmentative
communication (AAC) assessment
DDD Case Management and Information Services
Branch
Case Management and Information Services Branch (CMISB) is a branch of
the Developmental Disabilities Division (DDD). CMISB develops,
coordinates, monitors, and ensures the statewide delivery of
individually appropriate services and supports to persons with
developmental disabilities and/or mental retardation through the
utilization of existing resources within the community, through
coordination with supports and services provided under federal, state,
or county acts and through specific funding when no other resources are
available.
Developmental
Disabilities Division (DDD)
Information about the state system of supports and services for persons
with developmental disabilities or mental retardation (DD/MR).
Disability &
Communication Access Board
Serve as a public advocate of persons with disabilities by providing
advice and recommendation on legislation, rules, policies, procedures,
and plans relating to persons with disabilities and their civil rights
or service needs.
Executive Office on
Aging
The Executive Office on Aging is dedicated to assuring the well being
of the more than 230,000 older adults who live in Hawaii as well as
their caregivers.
Health Care
Assurance
The State Licensing Section of the Office of Health Care Assurance is
responsible for promulgating licensing rules and developing standards
as required to ensure quality of care for certain community based
facilities, which must be licensed by the State, but not certified for
Medicare participation.
Neurotrauma
Information and assistance regarding severe chronic disability of a
person that is attributable to an injury to the central nervous system,
such as traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, and likely to
continue indefinitely. Neurotrauma can include other neurological
dysfunctions but does not include substance misuse and abuse,
Alzheimer's disease, or the infirmities of aging.
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