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?\u00a0 We educate people for a good reason, not out of vanity. Let’s put those public education $ to use and not let people languish.<\/p>\n
How will this change come about?\u00a0 Not by stripping Medicaid of its funds.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 New blood means new ideas.\u00a0 Medicaid Day Hab programs have got to become more flexible for all of the new populations using them.\u00a0 Shelves of toys and television are a waste of our country’s most valuable resource:\u00a0 people.\u00a0 Any people, every person alive has a purpose, has something to contribute.\u00a0 There is no such thing as people who are “out of it,” or “low-functioning.”\u00a0 There is only exhausted parents, teachers, and caregivers, who have run out of inspiration and hope.\u00a0 And funds.<\/p>\n
We need some new ideas.\u00a0 We need some research into adult developmental disability and how to keep those minds growing.\u00a0 My way of thinking is:\u00a0 We are Developmental Delayed,<\/em> Not Defunct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-xn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}