Standard Therapies
A type of healthcare that is implemented to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders.
What is Speech Language Pathology?
A searchable list of early childhood autism specialists who are eligible to be paid for services by AFU.
What is the RASP list?
A therapy model that uses music interventions to accomplish individualized goals, delivered by a credentialed professional.
What is Music Therapy?
The act of interfering with the outcome or course of a condition or process for the purposes changing a specific outcome (such as to prevent harm or improve functioning).
What is intervention?
A form requesting autism-specific services submitted by parents to authorize AFU to pay service provider invoices.
What is an RTP?
A person who implements a behaviour plan created by a behaviour consultant/analyst and tracks goals and progress of the child.
What is a BI (behaviour interventionist)?
A standard set of guidelines that is known to provide good outcomes if followed.
What is the principle of Best Practices?
A non-invasive procedure to measure brainwaves and retrain the brain by providing immediate rewards to beneficial brain function.
What is neurofeedback therapy?
A 12 month period, determined by birthdate, over which $6000 is available for equipment and therapy related to an autism diagnosis.
What is a funding period?
A form requesting an existing authorization for autism services be modified in some way (increase rates, change effective dates, etc..)
What is an RTA?
What are the services that are eligible for both the Under 6 and 6-18 Program?
A therapy implemented to treat or prevent musculoskeletal injuries that can be caused by compulsive/repeated motions.
What is physical therapy?
The two specialized therapies that require a letter of recommendation from a credentialed professional to be eligible for Autism Funding.
A therapy that involves communication with a physical control of a horse for the purposes of emotional/social therapy.
What is equine assisted/hippotherapy?
The business area in AFU that receives and sorts incoming forms, answers general questions and provides guidance to parents accessing the program.
What is the Communications Team?
The time an authorization is eligible to be set up or an invoice paid, based on its date of submission.
What is the 6-Month Rule?
The most commonly approved specialist for children just starting on the program.
What is a Behaviour Consultatant?
The process by which a specialized therapy provider is assessed to ensure they meet the relevant criteria to be approved by the AFU.
What is a program review?
The day an approved service provider can no longer paid under any circumstances for services they provide to a young adult who has been on our program.
What is the day after the child's age out date (last day of their 19th birthday month)?
The only form that is eligible to be processed for a full year after the date it is signed.
What is a JFE?
The three core concepts that determine if a therapy or service will be considered eligible for payment by AFU.
What is Best Practice, Evidence Based and Intervention?
The term used to denote a newly credentialed early childhood autism specialist who has been working with young children for less than a year.
What is Category B Provider on the RASP list?
The most infrequently approved specialized therapy that does not require a letter of recommendation or supporting documentation from a credentialed professional (still requires program review).
What is Movement Therapy?
The most important relevant criteria for a specialized therapy provider to be deemed eligible for payment by AFU.
What are autism-specific goals, credentials, and work experience?
Standard forms that must be redirected to the New Admits business area for processing.
What are RTP/As for children in the care of the ministry?