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teacher. sd i built a binder for him and put together a daily plan for him. this is how it is set up for adults. you graduate and all education stops. eric is nowhere near finished with his education. eric s parents are paying out of pocket for activities to get him out of the house. he has a gym membership and music therapy class and companion to take him places. it comes at a staggering cost. do you have idea of how much you spent? probably $40,000 or others around $90,000. for a year? yes. we have not been able to save money. we don t have retirement. it s like when people ask me how much does it cost to raise a kid with autism. everything you got. for nick, his mom finds a social worker to take his case and after three months on the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180210:09:37:00

dateline took hidden cam a cameras in the day programs to see for ourselves. we said we were looking for a program for someone with autism who is aging out. this is what we saw. at one, a group of adults gathered in a room doing very little. at another, people with special needs are working gluing strips of rubber to metal. a staff member tells us they spend most of their day in this room. 8:30 to 3:00. they have a break from 8:30. and outside the facility, there is barbed wire. the staff says it is for safety reasons. there are often huge wait lists to get into day habs. somebody told me not to look at the state programs. someone in the state system

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180210:09:03:00

i was just hoping i would not start crying in the classroom. reporter: graduation is when parents launch their children into the world eager to see what lies ahead. but for the families you ll meet tonight the joy they feel in this moment masks the terror and dread lurking just below the surface. i wake up every morning, drenched in sweat and worried about what am i going to do about eric. reporter: that s because when eric and nick leave school they will lose the specialized help and structure they ve had for most of their lives. and there s no equivalent state or federal support required to take over. parents of children with autism compare it to falling off a cliff. happy graduation. reporter: everything that we ve worked for we are taking away and you will leap off a cliff into nothingness. right now the picture is nothingness, it s black. absolutely black. for the last three years dateline s cameras have chronicled the lives of these two families as they made this leap

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180818:08:03:00

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