Clinical Services
CLINICAL SERVICES AT GREENVILLE CENTER:
The Greenville TEACCH Center offers clinical services that are tailored to meet the unique needs of each autistic individual across the lifespan and their family. Services are designed to promote communication, executive function, social skills, and emotion regulation. Parent coaching is provided to help parents understand their child’s unique learning styles.
Diagnostic Evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults
The Greenville TEACCH® Center provides diagnostic evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults who are thought to have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but have not yet received a diagnosis. This center partners with the Raleigh TEACCH Center to provide assessments for our clients. The first appointment will occur at the Greenville Centers and the day-long assessment appointment will occur in Raleigh.
What does an evaluation include?
- Diagnostic interview with individual and/or caregivers and questionnaires
- Review of medical, social, academic, and developmental history
- Testing sessions with the individual using empirically-based assessments including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule – 2nd edition (ADOS-2) and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale – 2nd edition (CARS2)
- Other additional assessments as needed
Results are shared during an interpretive conference, typically at the end of the diagnostic day. Family members of an adult who is their own guardian are welcome to attend the interpretive conference at the invitation of the individual.
Report with recommendations is mailed to the family or individual (if client is an adult). Reports include individualized, written evaluation summary with a list of recommendations and resources.
Intervention / Therapy Services – Individual
Individualized Parent TEACCHing Sessions are designed to facilitate a collaboration/partnership between TEACCH staff and parents. A key to this collaboration is our underlying philosophy that parents know their children best and that TEACCH can provide information, strategies, and support to address the needs of their children. Individual parent TEACCHing sessions are available to parents of autistic individuals of all ages.
These sessions provide an opportunity for parents to learn ways of teaching their child at home, build self-help and other home skills including communication and social skills, as well as address behavioral concerns. Sessions are 45 minutes in length and are offered weekly. The number of sessions varies depending on the individual’s needs (typically eight to twelve sessions). During the sessions, a therapist works directly with the child to model suggested strategies and then works with the parent to implement these strategies that address the concerns the parent may have.
- Who: Individual with ASD of any age and their parents
- Location: Clinic or virtual
- Duration:45 or 60 min/Week for 12 weeks
These sessions are available to clients of all ages using evidence-based practices to meet the individual needs of the client and family. A treatment plan is established with the client and/or family input informed by the individual’s strengths, interests, and needs. Depending on the age and needs of the client, interventions may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, visual supports, parent coaching, and naturalistic interventions.
- Who: Individual with ASD of any age and their parents
- Location: Clinic or virtual
- Duration: 45 or 60 min/Week for 12 weeks
Intervention / Therapy Services – Group
This group focuses on teaching and practicing skill-focused modules (Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness) which are designed to help individuals improve management of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive instability. New skills are presented each week and homework is assigned for individuals to practice during the week and reviewed in future groups.
- Age: Individuals with ASD age 18 and older
- Location: Virtual Sessions Only
- Duration: 90-minute group session, once per week, attendance for 14+ weeks
Vocational
The TEACCH® School Transition to Employment and Postsecondary Education Program (T-STEP) FREE, evidence-based college class to help autistic students transition to adulthood. The program is for 16–21 year-olds with Autism Spectrum Disorder who will or have received a Future-Ready Core high school diploma.
Support and Education
Greenville TEACCH offers a seminar for parents to ensure that all parents of children with a diagnosis of autism have access to information that will help in better understanding autism as well as the behaviors and learning styles that accompany autism. The focus of the seminar is understanding autism, understanding the learning, social, communication, and behavioral needs of autistic individuals, and understanding your child’s individuality and how to use this information to problem solve and advocate for them. This seminar is designed for parents of newly diagnosed individuals, but the information shared is helpful to all parents, regardless of a child’s age, development, or length of time since diagnosis. The seminar combines lectures, discussions, and time for individual questions.
This free service is provided to families of children under the age of 4 years who are currently on our waitlist. The focus of the series is on an introduction to the use of naturalistic, developmental, behavioral, and Structured TEACCHing strategies to be used in the home and community. The series runs for a total of 6 weeks and meets for 1 ¾ hours, and is virtual. This is offered in both English and Spanish.
Consultation to Schools, Group Homes, and Other Agencies
TEACCH provides consultation services to local school systems, group homes, and other agencies providing services to autistic individuals and their families. Agencies can request consultation for a program and an individual client. Please call your local TEACCH office at 919-966-0211 for more information.