How Much Should Families Sacrifice for Their Children with Autism?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} Note: This post is an updated version of a piece I wrote in 2007. The first 19 comments are from that time; they still seem as relevant today. Please feel free to add your thoughts or to vote in the poll! It’s been several years since I wrote on this blog about the issue of parental self-sacrifice and autism, but the issue is still as important today as it was back in 2007. Four years ago, autism was a huge and growing issue, and that hasn’t changed. Autism therapies were outrageously expensive then, and they remain so today (though more insurance companies and schools have seen that it is in their best interest to make at least some major therapies available to children with autism). The biggest change, perhaps, is that young children with autism are now becoming young adults with autism – and the supports that were available to children unde
