Story Idea-Gov help

This posting was submitted from a mother who wants more help from the gov . This item was emailed to this blog--AR

We have identical twins six year olds with autism.
One has gotten much better and one has not. We have
had severe financial difficulties so we have not been
able to do any treatments or therapies outside of what
the school provides.

We feel abandoned by Missouri because we do not
qualify for any help meeting basic needs due to the
one income. My spouse does not work to take care of
my daughters. We have applied for food stamps,
free/reduced lunch, emergency assistance from NECAC
and DDRB and have come up empty. We are in danger of
becoming homeless and losing our transportation to
school, work if we don't get assistance.

In Illinois, families with autistic children are
getting government assistance of something like 12,000
dollars per year. Other states do so much more for
their disabled.

Please study the resources that are available to
Missourians as opposed to other states and get the
message out there that there are families in Missouri
falling through the cracks. We would do so much more
for our girls if we had the resources.

Story Idea-Cost and govt

This posting was submitted from a mother who wants coverage on costs and the gov helping. This item was emailed to this on this blog--AR



Autistic kids are like finger prints, you'll never find two that are the same. The biggest problem in my life has been funding. It will cost me $50000/yr to send my son to school. The gov't for some stupid reason will not give individual families money to help themselve. They will fund general programs that make families need to fit their kids into a box group...This is not posible. I think instead of funding programs that may only be of half use or no use at all to parents they should allow parents to draft their own proposals with their pediatrician for fund that can uniquely help each persons kid.

Nobody plans to have a disabled child! and Autism does not disciminate. Anyone can have an autistic child. Children with autism get worse and worse as polititians debate over the money issue! I was just in my cities news paper this last Wednesday about this same issue. Mother's break down because they just cant find the money to help their kids. This combined with fund being appriated to rediculous topics, like wars, space, gov't contests, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, sends moms like me through the roof. Im not saying that these things arn't important but lets face it 20 years ago amunitions expendatures were rated at $1.5 million dollars a minute globally!!!! (stat taken from: The Globe and Mail, Toronto Canada Jan.22.1987 in a speech given by Ivan L Head) but yet politions can't let parents have money to help their children! I am tired of watching my son get worse and worse because I cant afford to send him to school! $50 000.00 a yr!