I know …anyone with an autistic child (and funding their therapy) will not be surprised but now there is a report that agrees with this. I really think that people that aren’t aware of the detail, don’t really understand how little is funded by the government. I know I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about going to the Medicare office with her bills. She goes monthly. I go quarterly because the amount of paperwork required to get the little I can get back means that doing it more frequently than monthly would test (my already tested) sanity. When for a typically person all you need to do is just take your doctors bills. It really is a different world.
I was reminder reading today when I was reading an interesting post on the Australian Autism Handbook today called Autism is Expensive. An excellent post on a new report Post-diagnosis support for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, their families and carers. After reading the post I knew I had to do 2 things .. download the report for later reading and spread the word about it.
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Great idea to spread the word. It’s heart breaking. And certainly most mums I know have had their careers/work hugely impacted. Of course they have. Benison has explained it all very clearly, not sure I can bear to read the detail myself!
I agree Benison did an amazing job on your blog in describing it.
I have download the report and had a random flick (if you can call it that when you use an e-reader) but haven’t sat down for the read yet. I guess like you I have some trepidation. It is one thing to know it, to live it and to see people on a weekly basis living it .. but somehow seeing in black and white in a government report .. but hopefully it will make it more difficult for politicians to ignore the situation. I am going to try and have a read while LittleMan is in therapy (and maybe LittleMiss is asleep).
What I can not help but wonder but how many people are locked at home (ABA Home Detention) that would be able to work but just need some flexibility including working from home. I know I would love to do more work but trying to get work is difficult/impossible. Most of my work has dried up. It would be good for the economy, good for businesses, good for families (not just monetarily … help with headspace too). What talent is being wasted and opportunities being lost … arrggghhhh …
Great idea to spread the word. It’s heart breaking. And certainly most mums I know have had their careers/work hugely impacted. Of course they have. Benison has explained it all very clearly, not sure I can bear to read the detail myself!
I agree Benison did an amazing job on your blog in describing it.
I have download the report and had a random flick (if you can call it that when you use an e-reader) but haven’t sat down for the read yet. I guess like you I have some trepidation. It is one thing to know it, to live it and to see people on a weekly basis living it .. but somehow seeing in black and white in a government report .. but hopefully it will make it more difficult for politicians to ignore the situation. I am going to try and have a read while LittleMan is in therapy (and maybe LittleMiss is asleep).
What I can not help but wonder but how many people are locked at home (ABA Home Detention) that would be able to work but just need some flexibility including working from home. I know I would love to do more work but trying to get work is difficult/impossible. Most of my work has dried up. It would be good for the economy, good for businesses, good for families (not just monetarily … help with headspace too). What talent is being wasted and opportunities being lost … arrggghhhh …