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Thinking About Moving Out Of NYC Thinking FLORIDA
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Looking for tips advice information on sfloriday, & your general opinion on how it is living with a child with Autism in Florida. Was it difficult to get services? How are the schools for children with ASD? How's the health plans / insurance? Things like that. Thanks all support comments and advice is truly appreciated.

posted March 27, 2016
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You may not think it but you are better off in NY than FL. I know it can be expensive in NY but Fl offers very little by the way of services, or at least it did a few years ago and that is why we left. You can apply for the McKay grant but it does not cover everything and there was a lot of out of pocket costs for us. I have two on the spectrum and one requires a lot of services so it was costing us thousands a year for what she needed.

We tried a few different schools and had a hard time finding people qualified to take good care of the children. We had a great PS teacher but she came from the north. Florida schools work on a lot of inclusion so that did not help. We were actually told by many a professional to move north so that is what we did.

posted March 27, 2016
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Thankx

posted March 27, 2016

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