Some special ed students in NYC reportedly denied services, federal guardrails could be coming to protect Home and Community Based Services and more developmental disability news for week ending Sept. 13, 2024.
Spotlight: CDPAP
15 NYC Council Members Urge Hochul to Rethink CDPAP Changes
The letter says the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program is “no racket,” and encourages Hochul “to work with the state Legislature and stakeholders on ways to enhance the program, not needlessly strip benefits from our neediest population.”
New York
NYC parents of special needs students say they were denied services by Department of Education (CBSnews.com)
NYC urged to expedite return of special ed services to students in non-public schools (silive.com)
Artists with disabilities find community, opportunity in Queens through the ArTech Collective (cbsnews.com)
Outside of New York
Newark parents of students with disabilities told their children didn’t have a school (Chalkbeat.org)
Oklahoma lawmakers weigh corporal punishment on special needs students (kjrh.com)
Texas family fights for change after special needs daughter placed on service waitlist for over 16 years (Click2houston.com)
DOJ Sues Maine for Allegedly Violating the ADA by Separating Children from Families (themainewire.com)
Autism
When America’s Views on Autism Started to Change: A Look Back at the Work of Steve Silberman (The Atlantic)
What factors led to the failure to diagnose autism in Black Boys? (Psychology Today)
Federal Govt.
Feds Urge Guardrails To Protect Access To Medicaid Community-Based Services (Disability Scoop)
Biden recaps five decades of disability policy work in final ADA commemoration as president (The 19th)
