They are among society’s most vulnerable children with severe autism and yet many endure abuse or neglect in the state-licensed residential schools that care for them. With not enough accountability and scant public disclosure, it is an invisible crisis.
In September 2017, Hanover police got an intake investigation report from the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission that said then 31-year-old Andrew Keenan engaged in “inappropriate conversations that included sharing of photos and videos” with a woman who lived in a “disabled housing complex” at Cardinal Cushing Centers – a special education school in Hanover, where he once worked.
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One URI professor and his team have just launched an innovative new app to try and help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities understand abuse.
R3: Recognize, Report and Respond is a free app developed by a team at the University of Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission.