Are You Part of a Day Program?

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A day program is for people with autism and other developmental disabilities where you get to go out for the day. For instance I get picked up daily or a few times a week and either go to a center (like I did a few months ago) or am assigned one on one to a worker and I get to go anywhere I want. Without such programs some people with autism would be isolated. My business Humboldt Candles is only possible because of these types of programs as well. Who else here also participates in alike programs?

Nathan Young

Yes and no. I attend a centre in Edinburgh for people with autism. But I work during the days, and the stuff I do with the centre is activities at evenings and weekends where you get to go places and do stuff.

The centre is developing an employability project at a local golf club, where people with autism are being employed.

Underneath all the candle lids is a label for lawn care and house cleaning for disability to work provided by programs. The candle project I am doing is a program that is autism ran. Next year I will be having my job coach talk to businesses about enhancing my own program that is disability minority group owned about direct sponsored placement for very-part-time for learning. What this means is my network of programs I've started to work with will kind of work together. There is not enough autism leadership but at least programs offer the ability to get out of the house.

am go to a national autistic society day centre sometimes,but am only allowed there when the rest have been taken out,and have to go when have got two to one staff [two staff to self].
am like the padded sensory room there the most-they fund raised to upgrade it from how it used to be though they wont put anything tactile in because they have service users who will rip anything out that they can get their hands on,am would stay in the sensory room all day if was allowed,it's got a lot of activities to do in the centre if want to do them,it's nothing like a regular day centre funded by the council which are complete crap,the rest of the people am live with go to council day centres,they sit there all day with a tv and video player in front of them,waiting to go home-only the profoundly disabled users there get the staff.

Here it is 3 consumers for every one staff. Unless your one on one.

yes I do, but I hate it. There are no aspies like me. The only reason why I am in one becasue at the time I started asperger's was considered the same as high functioning autism. I am the highest functioning client there. The high functioning autistic clients are not as high functioning and pick on me because i am smart, and most of the high functioning autistic people also have beavior disorders and can be violent. The day program is run by an autism agency who has services for both children and adults. I am in the adult program. all of the adults,except for I have been in the autism school because they were too behavioral and/or low functioning to be in the public school system. I only ended up here because the agency had a counseling support program, and my mom and the counselor thought it would be good for me to be around autistic people, plus I think they needed an aspie, who did not go to there school(I was in honors classes at my public high school and graduated at the top 1/3 of my class). They needed an aspie to fill their quota, but at the same time because the agency only dealt with asperger children in their children's program, where the children were only getting social skills classes and a teen asperger program(the asperger children are too high functioning to go to the actual school), they never had an aspie adult, especially one who had a better education than half their staff there.
Unfortunately, they do not know how to deal with my talents and abilities and teh jobs that an autistic and/or disabled person could do were to easy and not challenging enough were I got bored. Also, the very behavioral ones both low and high functioning attacked me and abused me, and when I tell the staff and the managers, they tell me that they are disabled and I should just put up with it and allow it.
Just recently, I decided to leave and I am going back to college in September. Unfortunately, I am in their residence(the only aspie) and I am looking for apartments because I have the same abusive situation in the residence, especially with the most violent of their high functioning autistic men who also has mild mental retardation.

Many of the autism people I have known, most of which are in the realm of higher functioning were not violent but have frustrations. I have frustrations and as I have grown up I do not throw things anymore. I was threatened with a knife by a non-autism consumer who was jealous of me and the police talked to him and he was suspended. I think in some areas there is behavioral services for those that have such problems. In this area if you are attacked or threatened you are protected by California law for the right to be free from harm, in which case they must accommodate for your needs if they are government funded. I believe like all other groups there is a spectrum of behavior.

not a day program but a social group that is once a week

here is the desctription of it from the website

Thursday Night Young Adults Social Group

Ages: 18 - 25

Young, high-functioning single adults with Learning Disabilities and/or socially-handicapping conditions can plan their own activities, engage in rap groups, take workshops, travel to places of interest and participate in sports, swimming, group games, arts ‘n’ crafts and cooking! This program provides a warm and supportive atmosphere in which participants improve socialization and life skills. Program is co-led by social workers, special education and recreation specialists.

ive been going for a few years now

ive started at 14 in the younger group on tuesday nights
( now im im 19)

Currently in a different Day Treatment Program...

I'm helping start an ASD adult social group. If we're lucky, the NT who is helping us start it will back off before too long and let us run it.

Psygirl6--that sounds like a really poorly run group. There's nothing about being an aspie that requires you to tolerate violence or abuse from anybody, and people who can get violent ought to have checks-and-balances put into place so they don't hurt people. "They can't help it" is a stupid excuse. Even when somebody really can't help flipping out, the people who run the place ought to know they tend to do so and take steps to prevent them hurting anybody.

uh no, i feel like keeping my lettuce and chedder thank you