"Military effort offers special-needs care; Families get range of educational, medical support" by Emma Brown, Washington Post | January 10, 2010
WASHINGTON - When her husband, a Marine Corps colonel, was transferred last summer from the Pentagon to a base in southern California, Karen Driscoll was forced to confront the new school district that served her child with autism and the intricacies of federal special education law....
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Until recently, Driscoll would have had to fight the school district alone. But under a new Marine Corps initiative, she had reinforcements: a case worker and a special education lawyer, provided by the military, to accompany her to meetings with school officials and, if need be, to court.
Now look, I am NOT AGAINST THIS per se because the MILITARY FAMILIES SHOULD be TAKEN CARE OF!!!!
My first line item in the "defense" budget would be VETS CARE!!! FIRST THING!
Of course, I wouldn't be using them up in wars based on lies and tossing them away when they are no longer useful!
Want to SUPPORT the TROOPS?
Bring them HOME!!!!
HOWEVER, why can't ALL AUTISTIC PARENTS have this MILITARY HELP, huh?
When does the UNBRIDLED MILITARISM END, America?
That initiative is part of a larger military effort, led by the Marines and the Army, to address the medical, educational, and emotional challenges faced by special needs families.
And WHAT ABOUT THOSE FAMILIES that are NOT MILITARY, huh?
This country is starting to SMELL MORE FASCIST every day!!!!
“The Marine Corps is really standing behind our military families and saying, ‘We will take care of you and help you through this process,’ ’’ Driscoll said. With the US military in the room, she said, the Poway school district seemed more willing to negotiate.
Oh, I'LL BET!!!
Yup, let's INTIMIDATE LOCAL OFFICIALS so we can GET WHAT WE WANT, sig heil!!!!
Without setting foot in a courtroom, Paul was assigned a full-time aide.
About 220,000 active-duty and reserve service members have dependents with special needs, but only 90,000 are enrolled in the military’s main program to serve them, according to the Defense Department.
For the past two decades, the program has ensured that families are transferred only to bases that have doctors available to address their needs. That has prompted concern among service members that it will interfere with promotions and has caused the program to be underutilized.
But in 2007, the Army began offering as much as 40 hours a month of free respite care for soldiers who have dependents with disabilities. The Marine Corps followed suit in 2008 and then went further, creating about 60 new positions at installations across the country to help Marines and their families make the transition from place to place more smoothly.
Hey, I'm not complaining.
THEY DESERVE IT; however, what about the REST of US!?
Can't a FEW TRILLION be taken from the BANK LOOTING and WAR PROFITEERING accounts?
Update:
"Obama will seek additional $33 billion for wars
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned. The administration also plans to tell Congress next month that its central military objectives for the next four years will include winning the current wars while preventing new ones and that its core missions will include both counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations.
How much autism care would that buy?
:-(
Some change.
Each Marine Corps family is assigned a caseworker who helps them understand each state’s differing disability regulations and navigate the bewildering process of accessing special education services.
Wow! EACH FAMILY gets PERSONAL ATTENTION and ONE-on-ONE help!!!
Where is YOURS, American?
After all, YOU are the ones PAYING FOR EVERYTHING with your TAXES!!!!
Three staff lawyers have been designated to help parents with legal issues related to disabilities, including pressing school districts for those services.
Yeah, MAKE YOU PAY for GOVERNMENT MALFEASANCE, MALICIOUSNESS, and LIES, American taxpayers!!!
And WHO is going to STAND UP to the family with the ARMY and MARINES behind them?
“They needed to do something so that service members could deploy without worrying,’’ said Joyce Raezer, executive director of the National Military Family Association based in suburban Alexandria, Va.
How about NO MORE DEPLOYMENTS, huh?
When do you FINALLY FACE UP to the LIES, America?!!!!
The new measures are encouraging servicemen and women to ask for help addressing dependents’ disabilities rather than hiding them, officials said.
So when is the government going to start caring about the rest of us, hanh?!!
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When are you going to get sick of the LAME-ASS EXCUSES, America?!!
