As the vaccine rollout continues and the New Jersey rate of transmission continues to drop, Garden State schools and organizations are expanding in-person instruction opportunities. But that’s not the case for programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
State officials will only allow their programs to be offered online. The situation is causing hardship and frustration.
At the end of this week, what is being billed as the Open the Day Programs protest will be held in Freehold to bring attention to the situation.
Central Jersey resident Elizabeth Dicker, one of the organizers of the protest who teaches a program for adults with disabilities, said “remote learning for people with multiple needs is actually really hard because they have to be in front of a computer and some of them can’t access the computer. Some of them don’t even do remote learning even though it’s an option.”
A plea for help for NJ adults with developmental disabilities
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N.J.’s lockdown on programs for disabled people must end now, families say
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Kelly Reagan, right, at a Christmas party with Becky Chaplin, a social worker at the Ladacin day program in Ocean Township in 2017. Reagan is declining mentally and emotionally because day programs have been shut for most of the past 13 months , her mother, Marianne says.
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Aided by vaccines, mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing, the Murphy administration this year has gradually relaxed restrictions on nursing homes visits, attendance at weddings and sporting events and dining capacity at restaurants.
But there is one segment of the population that is still waiting for a reprieve from the pandemic-driven lockdown: the 12,000 people who live with developmental and intellectual disabilities who used to spend as many as 40 hours a week learning and socializing with their peers at what are called day programs.
Apr 15, 2021 07:41 GMTFXStreet News
DXY is up smalls around 91.70 ahead of the European opening.
Fed’s Powell said the economy is expanding quickly.
Retail Sales, Initial Claims next of note in the calendar.
The greenback, in terms of the
US Dollar Index (DXY), trades slightly on the positive territory around the 91.70 region ahead of the opening bell in the European markets on Thursday.
US Dollar Index now looks to data
The index so far reverses three consecutive daily pullbacks and manages to rebound from recent multi-week lows in the mid-91.00s.
The leg lower in the dollar comes amidst the steady performance in yields of the key US 10-year reference, which remain side-lined around the 1.63% region for the time being.