Transitions: A Lifelong Process-Oklahoma LEND Core Faculty and Childhood Mentor Address Transition Issues

2008

A unique perspective on transition issues was provided by Chuck Roberts, Oklahoma LEND Core Faculty in Self Advocate Issues, and his childhood mentor, Dr. Tom Tonniges, Medical Director, Boys Town National Research Hospital Institute for Child Health Improvement (Omaha, NE). Chuck and Dr. Tonniges were invited to present at Pediatric Grand Rounds by the Section of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. In their presentation Transitions: A Lifelong Process, they addressed the challenges of everyones role in transition for children with special healthcare needs to the adult healthcare system. Information was provided from two perspectives. The first perspective was from Chuck, an individual with special needs, reflecting on services received as a child as well as those received through his transition to adulthood. The second perspective was from Dr. Tonniges who provided services for Chuck as a child and then reconnected with him as an adult.

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