Deaf Services
Welcome to Aspire Indiana’s Deaf Services. We’re glad you’re here.
We offer a full range of behavioral health services to children, adults and the elderly.
Our program has professionally trained staff available to provide services for Deaf,
Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing and Late-Deafened individuals because we can communicate
directly in various methods, including ASL, Tactile Sign Language, English Sign Language,
Sign Supported Speach and Spoken English. We also have trained interpreters.
We can typically provide services in the communication method best suited to the
individual or family.
Our continuum of services includes:
• medications
• individual/group/family outpatient therapy
• case management
• life skill training
• employment services and residential programming
Our nationally recognized program includes:
• outpatient mental health services
• a 24/7 supervised Deaf GroupHome
• acute and long-term psychiatric hospitalization
• outpatient substance abuseservices for adults
• anger management groups for adults
• employment services
• and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services.
We offer more options than comparable programs in the state. In fact, Aspire Indiana
Deaf Services accepts referrals within Central Indiana and throughout the state.
encourage you to contact us. Our information is on the Deaf Services page on our
website.
Welcome to Deaf Group Home.
Because we recognize the importance of maintaining adults in their own communities, and decreasing the likelihood of isolation that Deaf adults experience, Deaf Services offers residential services for people with severe and persistent mental illness.
Our Deaf Group Home is staffed 24/7 by life skills coaches, providing a structured environment and life skills training in various areas like activities of daily living, personal hygiene, budgeting, leisure and community activities. I am proud to say we have the only group home for the deaf in Indiana.
Thank you and we hope you will consider our services!
More Information
Equally responsive to the needs of children, adults and the elderly, Aspire Indiana Deaf Services
provides an ongoing and readily available roster of professionally approved services to Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing
and Late-Deafened individuals who experience mental illness and/or emotional disorders. This nationally recognized
program includes:
• outpatient—ages six to 75+, psychiatric evaluation, medication prescription, screening, and monitoring
• 24/7 supervised Deaf Group Home
• acute and long-term hospitalization
• outpatient rehabilitation services for adults & children
• substance abuse services for adults
• anger management groups for adults
• employment services
• American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services
Services for deaf adults and children, offered by Aspire Indiana, include more options than
comparable programs in the state. In fact, Aspire Indiana Deaf Services accepts referrals within Central Indiana and
throughout the state.
Treatment Planning/Rehabilitation Services
In planning treatment, professionals skilled in mental health, deafness, and American Sign Language work as a team to assess
each potential client examining his/her capabilities from a medical, psychiatric, social, cultural, educational, vocational
and behavioral perspective. Individualized treatment plans and programs are determined from the results of these assessments
and by utilizing the client’s input to create a comprehensive approach to treatment.
Once a treatment plan is prepared the care coordinators, life skills instructors/coaches and therapists are assigned to
work with clients, families, and social service agencies to assist in treatment as needed and agreed upon by the client.
Crisis Intervention / Acute Stabilization Services
Aspire Indiana also provides 24-hour crisis services seven days a week. For those requiring short-term hospitalization,
Deaf Services offers acute stabilization admission to Community Hospital North where they provide an ASL interpreter.
Long-term admission is referred to LaRue Carter Hospital where Aspire is designated as a gatekeeper for our deaf clients.
Outpatient Services
Aspire Indiana’s Outpatient Services for Deaf persons targets individuals and families with a wide variety of diagnoses
and needs. The goal is to help clients cope more effectively within their environment.
Outpatient services also include marital/couple and family therapy, as well as pharmacological treatment. With Rehabilitation
services, our care coordinators and life-skills instructors continue training clients who move out of our group home to
an outpatient setting by assessing their needs and developing skills and resources in order to live independently in
the community.
With Employment services, our employment specialist provides training, coaching, and support for clients who are
interested in employment at the community.
Residential Services
With a goal of maintaining adults in their own communities and decreasing the high potential of isolation Deaf
adults experience, Deaf Services has residential services for people with severe and persistent mental illness.
Aspire Indiana’s group home, staffed 24/7 by life skills coaches, provides a structured environment for the training of
these individuals in various areas such as; activities of daily living, personal hygiene, budgeting, leisure and
community activities.
