will you have the guaranteed services? we always say if there is a way that he can remain there, then you are you are really trading in a lot for nothing. we have nice weather. that s about the level of service that we have here. i tell people don t move here sdplchhere. we asked the state of florida and they have approved more funding to get people off the wait list. how is it so different from one state to another? the funding source is medica medicaid. sharon is the senior adviser on disability for the u.s. government. she explains that states decide how to spend federal money for adults with autism. there s no minimum requirement in terms of how many people you will serve and how much money you spend. it s a state decision. the federal government can t
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the state requires anyone receiving services to have a social worker and lenore can t find one. lenore has taken nick for interviews at agencies to provide social workers, but none have agreed tgreed to take his to raise an autistic child. you can t do without the help. right now, i don t know how we re going to do it. i don t know what kind of life he s going to have because we re looking at a barren landscape for him. i don t think i have ever been more terrified than i am right now. autism advocate says government programs are not designed for adults with autism. the system is really broken. it s dated. it s not addressing the needs of adults and growing population of
misconceptions about autism is that it only affects children. you don t outgrow autism? you do not outgrow autism. look, we re gonna play catch! reporter: the clock is ticking on nicholas kubicsko s services too. the long island teenager has just months left before he turns 21 and loses access to resources his mother says have changed his, and her, life. i never gave up on nick. i always knew that there was more to him. i knew that he was in there. i knew he was trying and when we supported him at home. i kept getting glimpses. i knew where that young man was. reporter: finding a way to reach nick has been a challenge. he used to live in a 24 hour residential treatment center. but lenore says the staff had trouble with nick s obsessive behavior. it was torture for him to have someone try to intervene and rush him or prevent him from doing something. and what did that lead to? initially protesting. and it eventually evolved into him becoming very, very self-destructive
for adults and fewer options for adults with autism. i wanted to put in one of the local ys with a special needs program. they only go to 14. this is the phrase i hear from agency program center all the time. on the day after his 21st birthday, eric walks in to school for the last time. hi, eric. sabrina. not done yet. wait until 2016. so far away. right now we re in 2012. it s really tough. i wish we had more of a plan for eric. joshua, eric s teacher, says the day is more difficult because eric is the first student to age out of the rebecca school. we brought him so far. here is your art work.
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