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Related: About this forumSchumer to propose "Avonte's Law" to protect autistic children
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NEW YORK (WABC) -- It is something Michael Rosen, the Executive Director of Autism Speaks has lost sleep about - his son Nicky is autistic and non-verbal. When Nicky was little, he wandered. Rosen says he once found Nicky on a neighbor's roof.
"Eventually we had to put locks on top of doors, and that's how people with autism live," says Rosen, "you can't turn your back for one second."
This was a tough thing for Vanessa Fontaine to hear - her son, Avonte Oquendo also wandered. On Saturday, Fontaine buried her 14-year-old.
On Sunday, still too upset to speak, Fontaine did throw her support behind an idea that could have saved her child.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9407546
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)The other way is to require that people who staff and operate public schools for autistic kids KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
(BTW: Who's this *Schumer* guy?)
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)I hope that Senator Schumer can move this bill along