![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing - and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. Here, McGovern expands on her number one New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism", a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. 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. By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. ![]() Once Ethan turns 22, he will fall off the "disability cliff". A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.Īfter sleepless nights, intensive research, and 21 years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. ![]()
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