Kim-you are very fortunate to have found a good day program for your daughters in Connecticut. The pay for DSPs in day programs is very inadequate and here in New York they are trying to get a 7.8% staff increase instead of the 1.2% currently offered. This has resulted in huge numbers leaving the field and due to limited funding has also resulted in firing many who they can not afford to pay. The future is now complicated by a government that wants to cut already low funding by almost a trillion dollars, with states expected to fill the money gaps they can't afford. The result will surely be the closure of many programs across the state with nowhere for people already on the spectrum and the ever increasing numbers that are being newly diagnosed. This is a recipe for an enormous disaster for all autism families and it is in every state. The families like ours are left to try and cope with this and support and care for our loved ones who should never have been diagnosed with a previously extremely rare condition. God help us as we face a very uncertain future.

I have a question for parents of adult vaccine injured children who are sometimes aggressive/violent and a potential danger to others:
How did you handle discipline when they were young? What methods were used?

Last week, I picked up my 18yo son from Foundations Behavioral Health (the only in-patient facility taking short term violent autistic children in the Greater Philadelphia/SE PA area). I am feeling pretty horribly drained by the system right now. My tolerance for their constant lies about this boiled over years ago.

My son is not one of the severe ones. He is verbal. He can take basic care of himself. He can be helpful and charming at times as well. Then there is the rest of the time. And this is the time the system does not want to hear about. For us it is a 24-7 argument about . . . well just about anything he can be oppositional about. And those instances can quickly become explosive. This last event meant the police allowed us to take him to the ER and he was admitted in patient. But even there, they were ready to push him back into the real world within 2 weeks - into a 6 day unstructured Easter Break.

This part., where we are prisoners in our own home, is the part they need to know. With NO options for respite and NO options for a workable future.

The increase in awareness of our collective plight has been heartwarming, if only that a few of them have heard us. I doubt it.

Kennedy says by August. Here's to all my prayers that he makes it til then.

I just looked up alliesdream.org, listed at the bottom of the inclusion criteria Kim posted, to confirm it was up to date. It is. Here is the link for those who want to check, too:
https://alliesdream.org/?page_id=361

Not surprisingly, I honed in on the criterion that says: “Must be fully vaccinated with booster and wear a mask at all times.”

The irony that many/most are likely in their disabled state due to vaccines, yet required to receive more to attend, is sickening beyond belief. That those in charge think they are entitled to wield healthcare and medical decision making power over attendees, and withhold a needed placement if attendees/parents/guardians don’t comply, is reprehensible. That they require masks for those who most likely have communication, hearing, vision, socialization, skin, anxiety, health, and breathing issues is sheer madness and idiocy.

For the many who have suffered catastrophic injury from their “routine” childhood vaccines, resulting in a behaviorally-based “autism” diagnosis, most often requiring behavioral services and supports for any outside-the-home endeavor, and whose parents/guardians have vowed to protect them from further vaccine harm and damage, this placement would not be an option. And as Kim made clear, such requirements are the norm, not the exception.

Meanwhile, the new Secretary of HHS just omitted the word vaccines from his press conference about the Autism Epidemic, and he has not issued an immediate moratorium on the major cause of the Autism Epidemic. Today, more children will have the health and wellness vaccinated right out of them. Today, more children will receive an “autism” diagnosis, as well as many other vaccine-induced diagnoses, including seizure disorder, type 1 diabetes, severe food allergies, speech and language delay, vision and hearing issues, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, severe GI issues, and cancer. Today, more children won’t wake up due to the vaccines they recently received, and their parents will be told it was “SIDS”, an inexcusable misnomer for vaccine-induced death of a precious baby.

For those who survive the frequent assaults of vaccines in their childhood, but whose health, development, and independence have been decimated, they, too, will likely face extreme difficulties finding the caring help, timely and meaningful services, and appropriate placements they will need.

We, the adults in this world, continue to permit and inflict grave harm on children via vaccinations, now beginning in the womb, creating lifelong difficulties for the child that he/she need never have known. Shameful. Disgraceful. Unacceptable. Inexcusable.