Two recent stories in the New York Daily News highlight the struggles of families to provide for their autistic children.
In Staten Island, a police detective got caught up in the subprime mortgage crisis when she bought a fixer-upper with the intention of renovating and quickly reselling it, to pay for therapy for her 3-year-old autistic son. The fixer-upper was to be auctioned off today and the detective, Regine DeBellis, is in danger of losing her own house, too. She says:
“I didn’t get into this because I wanted to shop at Saks – we wanted to get Matthew in a program …read more