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Do you need any of these additional services? (continued)

Residential support Residential supports may be received in any Suggested phrasing: Do you have the help in your home you
services residence setting including own home, family need? Do you need help keeping your home clean, making food?
home, or congregate setting. Services include a
range of supports including homemaker services
(someone to come in to the home and
clean/cook).

Assistance with Help finding friends, keeping in touch with Some information may have been discussed in the relationship
social/relationship friends. section in Section I.
issues, meeting
Suggested phrasing: Do you see/talk with your friends enough?
people
Do you want help seeing/talking to friends? Do you want to do
things to make new friends/meet new people?

Communication Technology or other assistance with If the person uses some assistive technology during the meeting,
technology communication. This is specific to assistive surveyors can ask whether the technology is ample support, in
technology used to enhance communication working order, if the person would like some other
challenges derived from disability (e.g., communication device.
communication board, text-to-speech, Dynavox).
If the person does not currently use assistive technology,
Please note, we are not looking for the person’s surveyors can ask whether the person is always able to
desire to communicate more via standard communicate/speak with others, or whether others can
communication mediums such as skype, email, understand how they talk/communicate/speak.
etc.); that type of communication need should be
coded with social/relationship issues.

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