Concerns grow over centralizing support services for children
“In a therapeutic environment, relationships are everything and it takes a long time to establish that,” Hough said. ” Children with intellectual disabilities struggle with change. They struggle with social connections.”In an email to Global News, the Ministry of Children and Family Development stated, “pilot family connections centres represent an increase in provincial funding and resources for children and youth with support needs, including families of children with Down syndrome.
The centralized system was going to include children living with Autism, too, but after an uproar by B.C. parents, the government scrapped those plans, keeping the status quo of individualized funding. “I stand by the Autism community, it just sort of baffles me that we are we are sort of segregating the disability population and saying that these children deserve the individualized funding that works for them. So we’re going to keep that…these children , they don’t get that option.” Hough said.
Parents of children with Down syndrome have long been fighting for the same individualized funding that families with children on the Autism spectrum receive.“I worry that our fight on a provincial and local level is going to be a bit dismissed or forgotten about, Hough said.
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