Comments on: What Our Kids (Who Will Be Adults Tomorrow) Need: Listening Tour with Sen. Robert Menendez’s Staff

By: Symposium on Employment for ASD Adults

Symposium on Employment for ASD Adults — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:33:15 +0000

[...] not only feel less lonely, but less scary. Back in January, I was fortunate to be asked to attend a listening tour Senator Robert Menendez’s staff. There I met a wonderful group of parents, most of whose [...]

By: NJ Sen. Menendez to Announce A New Autism Initiative Apr 28

NJ Sen. Menendez to Announce A New Autism Initiative Apr 28 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:31:50 +0000

[...] spectrum disorder services and care, greater public awareness of autism spectrum disorders and support for adults with autism. New Jersey has the highest prevalence rate of autism in the nation (1 in 94). I was was hoping to [...]

By: Education and Advocacy: COSAC Strategic Planning Retreat

Education and Advocacy: COSAC Strategic Planning Retreat — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:26:09 +0000

[...] that I was fortunate to be present at for most of Saturday. A lot of the conversation was about the needs of autistic adults and especially about housing, and about how COSAC might best focus its efforts. A good deal of talk [...]

By: Looking Ahead: CT Pilot Program for Autistic Adults

Looking Ahead: CT Pilot Program for Autistic Adults — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:02:14 +0000

[...] daily concerns, such as nutrition and social skills—suggests some places in which to start. I heard the mother of a 20-year-old autistic adult who will need supports throughout his life make the same point that, yes, it’s wonderful that [...]

By: A New Jersey Mother Responds to Katie Wright

A New Jersey Mother Responds to Katie Wright — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:49:16 +0000

[...] consider also the issues discussed by myself and some New Jersey parents at last week’s listening tour with Senator Menendez’s staff and extend her concern to parents who have limited choices—-and often no options—-for [...]

By: “They graduate from school and some of them wait for years”

“They graduate from school and some of them wait for years” — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:01:08 +0000

[...] are the sorts of questions that came up again and again at the listening tour with Senator Menendez’s staff I went to last Wednesday. In the words of one mother, what will those autistic individuals who are [...]

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:21:37 +0000

Oh, by “structures”, above, I did not mean actual physical structures, but a more abstracted thing, maybe “modes of thinking and governing”?

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:13:52 +0000

Glanced over the Hague link. Reminds me of what G. Gordon Liddy said about Gary, Indiana, when he was an FBI agent there in the fifties, I think it was. I think it was something about the formal structures not being the same as the actual structures. I believe Chicago is run along the same lines.

As someone with autie tendencies, this pisses me off, of course. What’s in the bottle should be exactly what the description on the bottle’s lable says is in there, dammit!

Yes, I am thinking about voting for Ron Paul. Sorry

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:45:25 +0000

Thank you, Dottie! I learned so much for all of you on Wednesday—I hope we can all keep talking. So much to do. Charlie has a second cousin (a week older than him) who has her black belt—-I’m very hopeful that we can attend this Tae Kwon Do class. I have heard of others in New Jersey, too. Thanks so much again—-

By: Dotty

Dotty — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:57:28 +0000

Nice job summarizing yesterday’s meeting. This is the first time I’ve been to this website and it’s great! I’d love to hear more about Charlie’s Tae Kwon Do class. My husband, brother and I are all black belts and we’ve been wondering how to start to offer a class for autistic kids.