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The Golisano Center for Special Needs and Biobehavioral Health Unit teams stands ready to assist you with our highly experienced providers and multi-disciplinary approach.
For more information call 1-315-464-3555 or fill out our short form. Please do not use form to send personal emails to providers.
We can help you with:
- behavioral services
- feeding clinic services
- diagnostic evaluations
- EI/CPSE speech and language therapy
- EI/CPSE occupational therapy
Biobehavioral Health Inpatient Unit
This unit operates a bio-behavioral model that uses multidisciplinary assessments. This includes functional analysis, defining and tracking of target behaviors, individualized treatment of target behaviors and relevant psychiatric/educational needs, medication management and follow-up, among other ancillary services.
Treatment plans focus on 2-4 target behaviors that represent the need for admission (aggression, self-injury, tantrums, property destruction), and the treatment plan identifies the specific interventions that are used to reduce these target behaviors, including psychopharmacology, an individualized positive behavioral support plan, as well as other interventions.
The core of treatment is the identification, analysis and tracking of target behaviors, which provides evidence for unit effectiveness and response to intervention. During treatment sessions, laptop computers equipped with specialized data collection software will be used to record the occurrence of target behaviors. These data will also be used to track responses to medication adjustments.
Families and anticipated post-discharge providers are engaged in the treatment process from the beginning. They are explicitly requested to not simply visit their child, but rather shadow and then conduct the child's behavioral plan so that they gain skills in the specific techniques shown to be helpful during the inpatient stay. Utilization of video-conference and coordination with providers in their community supports engagement and lowers the likelihood of out-of-home placements and readmission rates.
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