DayHab is not going to cut it, for all the kids with disabilities who have come up through the schools, since IDEA. These are educated children, with skills and aspirations. They have not been relegated to basement classrooms, attics, and institutions. Excuse my language, but what the FUCK is going to happen if our adult services system doesn’t change with the times? We educate people for a good reason, not out of vanity. Let’s put those public education $ to use and not let people languish.
How will this change come about? Not by stripping Medicaid of its funds. But by bringing people with disabilities to the table (and their families), the government’s table, we can infuse the adult services system with new blood. New blood means new ideas. Medicaid Day Hab programs have got to become more flexible for all of the new populations using them. Shelves of toys and television are a waste of our country’s most valuable resource: people. Any people, every person alive has a purpose, has something to contribute. There is no such thing as people who are “out of it,” or “low-functioning.” There is only exhausted parents, teachers, and caregivers, who have run out of inspiration and hope. And funds.
We need some new ideas. We need some research into adult developmental disability and how to keep those minds growing. My way of thinking is: We are Developmental Delayed, Not Defunct.
DayHab is not going to cut it, for all the kids with disabilities who have come up through the schools, since IDEA. These are educated children, with skills and aspirations. They have not been relegated to basement classrooms, attics, and institutions. Excuse my language, but what the FUCK is going to happen if our adult services system doesn’t change with the times? We educate people for a good reason, not out of vanity. Let’s put those public education $ to use and not let people languish.
How will this change come about? Not by stripping Medicaid of its funds. But by bringing people with disabilities to the table (and their families), the government’s table, we can infuse the adult services system with new blood. New blood means new ideas. Medicaid Day Hab programs have got to become more flexible for all of the new populations using them. Shelves of toys and television are a waste of our country’s most valuable resource: people. Any people, every person alive has a purpose, has something to contribute. There is no such thing as people who are “out of it,” or “low-functioning.” There is only exhausted parents, teachers, and caregivers, who have run out of inspiration and hope. And funds.
We need some new ideas. We need some research into adult developmental disability and how to keep those minds growing. My way of thinking is: We are Developmental Delayed, Not Defunct.