The South Carolina Autism Society began providing service coordination to individuals with autism spectrum disorders on February 1, 2004 in five counties. Beginning January, 2009, SCAS is in partnership with The ARC of South Carolina to provide service coordination to individuals with mental retardation and related disabilities.

We now offer these services to residents of Aiken, Anderson, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Chester, Colleton, Dorchester, Fairfield, Georgetown, Greenville, Horry, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter, and York counties, and will eventually be offered to residents statewide.

The Choice is Yours

South Carolina is giving you the option of choosing who provides service coordination and other services.

The South Carolina Autism Society (SCAS) and The ARC of SC are partnering to give you an independent selection of providers. This partnership provides a unique alternative, because we do not offer any direct services: We provide a coordination of these services. This gives us the ability to be a better advocate by looking at all options available without being influenced. Another unique feature of this partnership is the array of workshops and activities we offer. These events are not only beneficial to the families that support individuals with special needs, but they are also fun and useful to the individuals as well.

We have a monthly coffee talk in each of our offices and several events throughout the year, such as an annual holiday party (with Santa!), a parents’ night-out while kids enjoy places like Fun-Zone (supervised by our staff), and number of trainings and workshops for parents and family members.