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GET TO YOUR LEGISLATORS NOW!  Although details have not been released we are hearing of extreme and unprecedented cuts to services in OMRDD.
TELL YOUR STATE LEGISLATOR THAT YOU ARE EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT OMRDD’S BUDGET  AND IMPENDING BUDGET CUTS -  Send repeated messages of concern to  your State legislators beginning now about OMRDD’s budget prospects.  The […]

Some of you may remember my post several months ago “I don’t want to live here any more” discussing my daughter’s desire to live in a community residence. Well, on Monday, February 6, Lauren’s dream came true. She moved into a community residence with 5 other women. She is excited and […]

Three years ago Lauren came home from her day program and announced that “I don’t want to live here any more!!!” I asked her what was wrong, I was aghast–what had we done to want her to leave??? After a while I realized that Lauren wanted to be like everyone else–all her friends lived […]

“The Male Condition” by Simon Baron-Cohn, published today on the New York Times Op Ed page, is a thought provoking discussion of the causes of autism from the director of the autism research center at Cambridge University. The author studies the differences between male and female brains and has brought his research to […]

When each of our children were born my husband and I started planning for their future, in particular the college fund. When we realized that Lauren would probably not be able to go to college and that she would need assistance for the rest of her life, we realized that we could not have […]