‘A crowning achievement, an uncertain future’
June 5th, 2009From the Chicago Tribune:
For students with disabilities, the prom and graduation at the Blue Cap Instructional Center in Blue Island are bittersweet events.
Once they turn 22, these students will no longer be eligible for public education, and will find few adult services available. Many will end up staying at home all day, and will likely lose the educational gains they worked so hard to achieve.
“Thinking about it puts a cold chill up my spine,” says Carl Wanzung, whose daughter Vianey will age out of the Blue Cap program in a few months. She’s been on a waiting list for adult programming for more than two years. If she doesn’t get in, her parents must decide between hiring a day-time aide on their own or one of them quitting work to care for her.
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