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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 97756" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>If you have a caseworker or someone like that - see if they can help you find a place that houses teens for Integrated Listening Systems (ILS) (independent living skills) </p><p></p><p>They have to get a job, learn how to ride a bus, manage money, have chores to do, and have to get along in a house with others of the same sex. </p><p></p><p>Usually there are pretty strict guidelines to living in the place, and failure is TOUGH LOVE - </p><p></p><p>We've done it with Dude, and have no regrets. He's doing better than he ever did. He hasn't quite figured out that he's becoming responsible for himself but he's getting there. </p><p></p><p>He sees what other teens have that don't have the same disability as him and he wants some of those things, and the teens are better at relaying HOW to get those things (car, stereo, job, girlfriend) than I could have ever done...and teens don't listen to him whine - because everyone has a "story". </p><p></p><p>The hard part for me will be should he fail there - he isn't allowed to come home. So I kept going to therapy to learn how to detach best I could and pray he gets his proverbial mess together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 97756, member: 4964"] If you have a caseworker or someone like that - see if they can help you find a place that houses teens for Integrated Listening Systems (ILS) (independent living skills) They have to get a job, learn how to ride a bus, manage money, have chores to do, and have to get along in a house with others of the same sex. Usually there are pretty strict guidelines to living in the place, and failure is TOUGH LOVE - We've done it with Dude, and have no regrets. He's doing better than he ever did. He hasn't quite figured out that he's becoming responsible for himself but he's getting there. He sees what other teens have that don't have the same disability as him and he wants some of those things, and the teens are better at relaying HOW to get those things (car, stereo, job, girlfriend) than I could have ever done...and teens don't listen to him whine - because everyone has a "story". The hard part for me will be should he fail there - he isn't allowed to come home. So I kept going to therapy to learn how to detach best I could and pray he gets his proverbial mess together. [/QUOTE]
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