I knew a woman who had two autistic children and was receiving a lot of help from the state of CA. California mandates that all special education students have mental health counseling through the public health system (they put them on ritalin). They also provide respite service for the parents and all day pre-school for the handicapped.
The point is that this woman was told that autistic children are more often found in families of where the father is an engineer or math brained type. I have no idea of the veracity of the statement, but her husband was an engineer.
CA has some of the more generous benefits for autistic kids.
Maybe the best. People with autistic kids don’t leave CA since they get all the state help.
All the libs in Silly Con Valley and the vulture capitalists there tell us how clean high tech is. Maybe that hot chick lib Erin Brokovich with the silicon chest (played by Julia Roberts) can sue Apple.
A lot of dope smoking and drug taking in MexiFornia too.
Interesting. I know a woman who also has two austistic kids (fraternal twins) and she herself is an Engineer.
Just saw this post. My daughter has special needs (brain injury that caused severe speech problems, epilepsy, auditory problems, and other issues), and we live in California.
“California mandates that all special education students have mental health counseling through the public health system (they put them on ritalin). “
We have never, ever recieved any mental health counseling from California, and my daughter needs it. She’s been to a private psychiatrist and psychologist.
“They also provide respite service for the parents.”
They have never provided any respite services for us.
“all day pre-school for the handicapped.”
They did provide pre-school, but there were 2 choices: 1 was an afternoon class that we tried, but it was during my daughter’s nap time, and she needed to take a nap.
There was a morning class provided, but it was at a school where that is primarily Spanish and the class would have been taught in Spanish.
It was very hard to get any good services for my daughter.
We have always had to provide private services for her in order to get her needs met.