Election 2014: Will Severely Autistic Adults Continue to Suffer Under An Alward Government As They Have Since 2010?

New Brunswick has made progress in early intervention and student autism services but adult autistic needs, particularly severely autistic adults, have been ignored, completely ignored during the last 4 years.  The article below originally appeared during the last provincial election period posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2010.   Zero progress, absolutely zero progress has been seen in adult autism care under the Alward government. Everyone has their priorities but for David Alward adults with severe autism disorders are not even on his list. Today we still banish severely autistic adults to the Restigouche Psychiatric Hospital in Campbellton on the northern border of NB with Quebec far from families; most of whom live in southern NB in Fredericton, Saint John and Moncton. Community? Not for those with severe autism disorders; not in NB. I will not try to tell anyone else how to vote in the looming provincial election but if you vote for the Alward, Carr, Flemming,  Dube, Higgs government you will likely be voting for the continued oppression of severely autistic NB adults.  I would love to be proven wrong, I would love to see David Alward, Jody Carr and other Conservative politicians actually live up to their rhetoric  instead of singing community cliches and posing for photo ops.  I would love to see the Alward  party  build an autism facility in Fredericton, envisioned by Paul McDonnell, Ph. D., near the au...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Category: Autism Authors: Source Type: blogs