UIC Division of Specialized Care for Children - Information Library for Families & CSHCN

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Information Library for Families

We have developed an online library of information and materials for families and children with special health care needs. Some of these materials are specific for families and children served by DSCC programs, while others are general materials that may be of interest to any family or child with special health needs. Materials on this page are listed alphabetically.

We hope you find this information helpful. If you have suggestions or comments about the materials provided here, please use our Contact Us page to communicate with us and help us make this a beneficial resource.

Application Forms for DSCC Programs
If you are interested in applying for either the DSCC Core Program or the Home Care Program, you can print the following application forms and mail them to the DSCC office in your area. Use the Find an Office link on our web site to locate the office in your area. More information about each of these programs is available from our Home page.

You can fill-in and print completed forms from our web site, print blank forms and complete them manually, or contact a DSCC Regional Office to receive them by regular mail. The Adobe Reader, available free from the Adobe web site, is needed to view and print these PDF files.

Note: Adobe Reader does not allow you to save completed forms to disk; the ability to save completed forms is available commercially with the Adobe Acrobat 3.0 (or later) product suite.

General Application Form

Solicitud de Asistencia

You can also call your nearest DSCC office and request application forms. You will be asked to provide financial and health care information about your child and family. These forms are needed to begin the application process.

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Coordinated Care Record
This workbook was developed to help families record and organize information for their child with special health care needs. It can also be used to help bring together and coordinate the many services and providers of care involved in the child's life.

The Coordinated Care Record is also available in a single PDF file; you will need the Adobe Reader to view and print this document. The Reader is available free from the Adobe web site. This is a large file (approx. 500KB) and may take several minutes to download, depending upon your modem connection.

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DSCC Brochures
These brochures are available in PDF format - you will need the Adobe Reader to view and print the document. The Reader is available free from the Adobe web site.

Institute for Parents of Preschool Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Provides information about the annual Institute held in June of each year in Jacksonville, Illinois. This is a great opportunity for parents and their children, age birth to 5, to spend a week, completely free of charge, with experts in the field of deafness from all over the state. The professionals’ job is to give parents the information they need to help their children with hearing loss. Parents receive informational materials, meet other parents, learn about teaching language, hearing aids, cochlear implants, potty training, discipline and more! Children receive evaluations and a report for each child is sent to families after the Institute ends. Read the brochure to see how to apply to attend. The brochure is available in both English and Spanish.
Newborn Hearing Screening in Illinois
The Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS), Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and The Division of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC) have developed informational brochures for parents of children who received the newborn hearing screening.

“Newborn Hearing Screening in Illinois,” provides information on the importance of hearing screening and communication milestones for infants. The brochure is available in English (43.00), Spanish (43.00S) and Polish (43.00P).

“Illinois Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Important Instructions to Parents,” provides information to parents on the process of obtaining a follow-up diagnostic services for the infant after a referral. The brochure is available in English (43.01), Spanish (43.01S) and Polish (43.01P).

DSCC and All Kids brochure
Information about how the Illinois All Kids program and the DSCC program work together is now available in a brochure titled DSCC & All Kids - Working Together.

DSCC Family Handbook
The DSCC Family Handbook is available in both English and Spanish versions from our website.

The handbook includes answers to the most common questions families have about DSCC services, and explains how to contact us for more information or assistance. The DSCC Family Handbook can also be obtained at no cost through our network of Regional Offices. See our Find an Office web page for more information about our Regional Offices.

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DSCC Family Newsletter
Our family newsletter, Special Addition, is published twice a year (in both English and Spanish) and provides national and state information for families of children and youth with special health care needs in Illinois. Mr. Bob Cook, our Family Liaison Specialist, serves as the editor of this newsletter. Please visit our Family Newsletter (text-only version) page and find out more about the important issues being addressed in the newsletter.

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Health Insurance Resource Materials
DSCC has developed the following material to assist families in understanding health insurance.

This material is available in PDF format - you will need the Adobe Reader to view and print the documents. The Reader is available free from the Adobe web site.

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Illinois Provider Directory for Children with Disabilities
A statewide resource for locating pediatric health care providers in Illinois and the surrounding border states is now available online. Families can use the directory search features to locate providers by the type of specialty needed, by the type of health care services needed, or by the city or county where they want to obtain care.

Providers listed in the directory include pediatricians, family physicians, pediatric specialists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech pathologists, audiologist, pediatric dentists and others. To locate specialty providers in your area, visit the Provider Directory for children with disabilities.

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Medical Documents of Interest
To learn more about health issues that your child may be facing, DSCC has pre-defined a collection of journal articles on health conditions and treatment available through the National Library of Medicine (NLM). You can click here to let us help you. We have provided a list of specific medical conditions for you to select from. The NLM provides a brief summary or "abstract" of the journal article. For a fee, you can obtain the complete article from any library that carries the journal containing the article.

Another valuable resource provided by the National Library of Medicine is MEDLINE plus. MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and offer easy access to the medical research literature. This resource also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

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Questions and Answers about DSCC's Core Program
Here is a list of frequently asked questions (text-only version) about DSCC programs and services. Please feel free to contact us by using our Contact Us web page or sending us an email message should the information you need not be listed. Our e-mail address is: dscc@uic.edu .

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