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"... the CA Department of Developmental Services assessment of Autism in Silicon Valley.
Such an assessment presents excellent opportunities to develop services appropriate for clientele (some of whom are in that region’s TECH. Industry) with High-Functioning Autism (Aspergers). Yet, follow-up news on such opportunities appear to have "gotten lost in the shuffle!"
Just how have services concerning the Autism Spectrum been reassessed, and developed, as a result of the CA Department of Developmental Services assessment of Autism in Silicon Valley?
From my own personal viewpoint as a client of CA state developmental services, I get the impression that our own allies concerned with the Autism Spectrum are "asleep at the wheel!"
What I see is that the main challenge in moving AS awareness to a higher level in the general population's consciousness, which this CA study would do, is the lack of connection between AS people in general. We don't communicate effectively with one another. Just look at this forum. Few topics gain broad interest. Instead we see an ever growing list of sub topics base don individual personal questions and focus, not on the broader issues that effect us all. There is very little group identify.
I blame this lack of group identity on the current "advocacy" principles that put advocacy for individual services ahead of common good AS advocacy that would impact many more AS people than the one-at-a-time personal advocacy approach the NT social services community employs.
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Socialization is overrated.
25 Feb 2017, 6:36 pm
