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Advocacy organizations for autistic and disabled people paid close attention to the trial, including Autism Speaks and the Arc of Northern Virginia. In news reports, several parents of autistic teens stated that their child could have reacted the same way in Latson's place. More than 50 people wrote letters to the judge asking for leniency in ...
The argument commonly used to justify the underemployment of disabled people – lack of skills – does not always apply to the employment of autistic people. [156] A review of the scientific literature shows that the autistic adults most rejected from employment are in fact those with the most behavioural problems. [116]
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The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The department operates Virginia's public mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse services system through a system of forty locally and regionally run community services boards (CSBs) and twelve state-operated facilities [1] which serve children ...
The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “Feeble minded” or those with severe mental impairment. The colony opened in 1910 near Lynchburg, Virginia , in Madison Heights with the goal of isolating those with mental disabilities and other qualities deemed unfit for ...
The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is a state supervised and locally administered social services system in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [1] The department is headed by a Commissioner who is appointed by the Governor of Virginia . [ 2 ]
New York’s disabled vets are seeing red instead of ganga green on the eve of Veteran’s Day — fuming that they have been awarded a paltry 3.5% of all of the state’s cannabis business ...
[5] Furthermore, according to the UK Office for National Statistics, the unemployment rate of autistic people may reach 85%, the highest rate among all disabled groups studied. It is noted that in many countries autism is not a disability protected by anti-discrimination employment laws, and this is due to many corporations lobbying against it. [6]