SchaferAutismReport: States Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable

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Subject: States Slashing Social Programs for VulnerableTo: "Schafer Autism Report " Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 12:45 AM

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NEWSStates Slashing Social Programs for VulnerablePEOPLECoroner: 2-Year Old Drowned Boy Went Missing Tuesday AfternoonFamily Fights Insurance Industry Over Autism PolicyRESEARCHAsperger Syndrome Tied to Low Cortisol LevelsInduction of Metallothionein In Mouse Cerebellum And Cerebrum With Low-Dose Thimerosal Injection.TREATMENTTeaching Autistic Kids To Read Facial ExpressionsTeaching Autistic Teens to Make FriendsDoctors 'Failing To Spot Asperger's In Girls'EVENTSBuddy's Benefit for the Autism Society of Washington

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Deadline for May calendar is April 24 NEWSStates Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable By Eckholm, Front page, NY Times.is.gd/s3Eg Battered by the recession and the deepest and most widespread budget deficits in several decades, a large majority of states are slicing into their social safety nets — often crippling preventive efforts that officials say would save

money over time. President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package is helping to alleviate some of the pain, providing large amounts of money to pay for education and unemployment insurance, bolster food stamp programs and expand tax credits for low earners.. But the money will offset only 40 percent of the losses in state revenues, and programs for vulnerable groups have been cut in at least 34 states, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a private research group in Washington. Perhaps nowhere have the cuts been more disruptive than in Arizona, where more than 1,000 frail elderly people are struggling without home-care aides to help with bathing, housekeeping and trips to the doctor. Officials acknowledge that some are apt to become sicker or fall, ending up in nursing homes at a far higher cost. Ohio and other states face large

cutbacks in child welfare investigations, which may mean more injured children and more taken into foster care. Despite tax increases, California has ended dental coverage for adults on Medicaid, all but guaranteeing future medical problems. “There’s no question that we’re getting short-term savings that will result in greater long-term human and financial costs,†said J. Blessing, interim chief of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, expressing the concerns of officials and community agencies around the country. “There are no good options, just less bad options." Arizona has one of the nation’s highest deficits in relation to its budget. As revenues sank late last year, forcing across-the-board cuts this spring, the child protection agency stopped investigating every report of potential abuse or neglect, and sharply reduced counseling of families deemed at

risk of violence. Some toddlers with disabilities like autism and Down syndrome are not getting therapies that can bring lifelong benefits. And here, as in other states, the drive to help disabled people live at home has been set back. Beth , 57, who lives in an apartment with two small dogs here, is on the growing waiting list for help. Seriously overweight, with chronic pain and weakness on her left side, she has trouble moving about and cannot step into the bathtub without falling, she said, displaying the cast on her broken wrist. “I can’t even walk to do the laundry anymore,†she said from the chair where she spends most of her days playing with her dogs, one of which she has trained to knock the handset off the telephone so she can reach it when she falls. Winona Conn, 75, who uses a wheelchair because of a paralyzed leg, has

been on the waiting list for home aid for a year. “It feels like you’ve been shelved,†she said. In Florida, recent modest cuts in home aid came on top of a growing backlog, while the number of people in need keeps climbing. State support for For rest of today's SAR click here:www.sarnet.org/frm/forsar.htm

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