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Autism Acceptance Month: The Fight For Support In Schools
Part four of a series exploring autism, neurodiversity, and the realities families face — focusing on how support works inside South Carolina classrooms
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Great series so far – I hope you address adult Autism services in a future story. There are plenty of services for children in South Carolina. Shockingly it’s one thing we do better than a lot of states.
As a father of a 21 year old son who is Autistic and non-verbal, his options for service are almost non-existent. He’s currently waiting for placement in a group home where he can get 24/7 care and supervision but there are few options and the providers pick and choose who they will take.
Private services like this don’t exist in South Carolina so even if I wanted to pay out of pocket to put him in a facility, it would have to be out of state, which would require restarting his Medicaid waivers – often a bureaucratic, year or more process. That’s assuming a state would accept him. Most require some form of residency so he would likely be without healthcare for a few years.