03-12-2018, 10:49 AM
The other day I started a long response about NY state regs, OPWDD, and why persons with disabilities don't automatically have door to door accompaniment. Has a lot to do with individual rights, and privacy, and lack of funding for schools to provide such services. Unfortunately a crashed table killed it. I blame Trump.
Suffice to say, in order to provide eyes-on service to Trevyon they'd have to have established a need and a precedent, and he simply did not have the history of elopement required. Even if he had, NY state requires a behavior be dropped from an IEP if no incident happens within a certain time frame. It's sometimes inconvenient, rarely tragic like this, and designed to protect people from being overly treated for a behavior that may be decades old. It happens.
Overall, NY state is far ahead of others in matters of disability rights. But we could go so much further.
Suffice to say, in order to provide eyes-on service to Trevyon they'd have to have established a need and a precedent, and he simply did not have the history of elopement required. Even if he had, NY state requires a behavior be dropped from an IEP if no incident happens within a certain time frame. It's sometimes inconvenient, rarely tragic like this, and designed to protect people from being overly treated for a behavior that may be decades old. It happens.
Overall, NY state is far ahead of others in matters of disability rights. But we could go so much further.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.