Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism
Cammie McGovern, "Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism"
English | ISBN: 0525539050 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1168 KB
English | ISBN: 0525539050 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1168 KB
A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.
After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have.
Here, McGovern expands on her #1
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