prescottsunshine
prescottsunshine
I know I live in Arizona and suffer almost no services for my mentally ill son and I realize there are more available services in other states, but does everyone else feel like I do about the descrepancy between what services are afforded families with developmentally disabled children receive compared to what families with mentally ill or emotionally disabled children get? I am a Special Education teacher in a severe/profound classroom and am also a friend of a mother with an autistic child. I am and have been always blown completely out of the water by the services they get that we do not! (Of course, I would never, ever begrudge them what they get and need!). They get all medical paid for, respite, habilitation, Occupational, Speech and Physical therapy, neuropsychologist visits free, medication free, transportation free, all their equipment including wheelchairs, diapers, high chairs and braces free, etc., etc., etc. Not to mention all the services they get in my classroom and in every school! Just once, I would like to hear those grande and wonderful words..."No Charge!". What does the average person raising a child with mental illness do about such a travesty?
Tanya
Tanya