DSS will now have sensory-friendly kits at all offices free for anyone who needs them.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Able SC has teamed up with the Department of Social Services and KultureCity, an Alabama-based nonprofit that helps with sensory accessibility, to provide more accommodating services for those with sensory disabilities.
“Roughly half of the individuals that we serve are individuals with sensory disabilities including autism, intellectual, developmental, and psychiatric disabilities,” explained Able SC President, Kimberly Tissot.
The partnership between each of these organizations has allowed DSS to become the first state social service program to be certified as sensory-inclusive by providing training to DSS employees and hands-on aids to reduce sensory overload or anxiety.
The executive director of KultureCity explained that DSS employees have been training to be more sensory friendly for the last six months.
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