Hard Landings

 Cammie McGovern wrote Hard Landings: Looking Into The Future For A Child With Autism. She has a child with autism so she wanted to share what she learned the hard way with her son growing up in Massachusetts. She reviews what services were available for her son from the age of 3 to 25. She found that services fall off at age 22. She also found that school did not prepare him properly for adulthood. She worries what will happen to her son once she and her husband are not available to provide support. She gives us a history of disability services and many stories about her family and her son. In her research she finds a few programs that offer quality services but they are few and far between. She writes about the "Employment First" movement which means well but has not been successful for most people with disabilities or autism. Services vary from state to state. Many people with autism end up falling through the cracks. I think the author is honest in that there are no easy answers for a parent who has a child with autism.