Clinical Services
Available for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Our Method
When you choose Easterseals MORC, you have the power to design your own care plan and to decide what is right for you. We encourage you to tell us your needs, goals and dreams and then we will guide you through the services and supports that will help you achieve that vision. Our innovative, person-centered approach leads to more successful outcomes and a greater sense of independence.
Services Offered
The below clinical services are available for individuals with intellectual disabilities who meet the eligibility requirements for public mental health services.
Psychiatry - Easterseals MORC Psychiatrists provide evaluation and medication monitoring to help address severe, persistent, or complicated symptoms of mental illness combined with a developmental disability.
Nursing Services - MORC nurses assist in the coordination of care, health promotion and preventative services, hospitalization, aftercare and education.
Examples of nursing services include:
- Diabetes management
- Wound care
- Feeding tubes
- Polypharmacy
- Multiple health issues
Psychology - MORC Psychologists provide cognitive or emotional assessments, positive behavioral supports, family/caretaker training, coordination with psychiatry and other disciplines and individual, group and family therapy.
Some things psychologists assist with include:
- Eligibility determination.
- Co-occurring mental illness such as anxiety disorder, depression, impulse control disorder, substance abuse, etc.
- Behavioral challenges that result in the potential for injuring self or others
- Sudden deteriorating change in behavior/skills
Social Work Counseling - Social work counselors provide individual, group or family therapy, sometimes in conjunction with a psychologist.
Social workers can provide assistance in areas such as:
- Grief and loss
- Dysfunctional relationships
- Sexuality issues
- Trauma of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse
Speech and Language - Speech and Language Therapists assess and provide treatment to individuals with speech, language, hearing, and/or swallowing disorders.
Some common areas Speech Therapists can assist with include:
- Problems with speech articulation, volume or fluency
- The need for Augmentative Alternative Communication (ACC) devices due to being nonverbal or having another neurological disease, such as cerebral palsy.
- Closed head injuries, aphasia, or any of the dementias.
- Swallowing disorders
Nutrition - Registered Dietitians assess and treat complex nutritional needs of individuals. They also assist in coordination of care, health promotion, preventative services, hospitalization aftercare, and education.
Nutritionists can assist with problems such as:
- Obesity
- Malnutrition
- Diabetes or kidney disease
- Swallowing disorders
- Tube feeding
- Heart problems
- Stomach or digestive problems
- Pressure ulcers
Occupational Therapy - Occupational Therapists assist individuals in establishing, restoring, or maintaining as much independence as possible. They evaluate the ability to perform daily living skills and the presence of environmental barriers.
Occupational Therapists can assist with areas such as:
- Physical disabilities
- Swallowing disorders
- Change in health status as the result of a stroke, injury, disease or amputation where fine and/or gross motor skills are affected
- Behavioral challenges that result in the potential to injure self or others where the behavioral support plan is not effective.
