Has anyone else had to learn the local laws for your city, school, and park district to get appropriate services for your child?

Here's my dilemma... The city of forest park, il Provides "normally developing kids" after school day care, and summer camp but kids with special needs are out of luck! So our local park district offers camp and after school care but have mandatory field trips every Friday, which Chloe has seizures from being on the hot bus and has sensory overload at places like… read more

posted 11 months ago by A MyAutismTeam User

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I am not sure about any laws, but if you have a YMCA they should offer something. Clay aikin started something called the inclusion… read more

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Our YMCA is awesome and does in fact offer inclusion. When I was speaking with the child care manager about summer camp options and after… read more

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our local ymca doesnt offer any support either... not enough funding is what i was told.

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State and local governments are required to provide equal access under the ADA laws. Their requirements are more rigourous than what private… read more

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Seems that I should have gone to Governer Pat Quinn! Lawyer at this point can only tell me the law but he can change the law! :) Thanks for… read more

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States cannot provide services for regular kids and not disablesd kids, so a lawyer is not needed for that, but you will have to bring the… read more

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Yep and for sure if they take federal funds the must follow federal las!

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