Parents seek to create lifelong home for adult children with autism
Friday, September 18th, 2009
From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
A group of Ohio parents have banded together to create a rural residential and employment program for their adult children with autism.
It’s estimated that the non-profit Safe Haven Farms will cost $3.2 million, and will house up to 24 adults.
Sometimes lost amid questions about what causes autism and why its prevalence has increased – neither answer is known – is this: What happens when all those children become adults?
“If I were to grade our country on adult services for individuals with autism, I’d have to give it an F,” says Jeff Sell, vice president of advocacy and public policy for the Autism Society of America. “There are just very few options out there.
(Cincinnati Enquirer photo of program founders Denny and Ann Rogers and daughter Emily)

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