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'Incredibly positive': Disability advocates commend Kansas Republicans' effort on waitlists

TOPEKA — As the dust settles on the legislative maneuvering of the chaotic 2024 session, disability rights advocates applaud a budget provision meant to shorten wait times for disabled Kansans who need services. Lawmakers overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to implement a provision that puts caps on the wait times for Kansans who want to […] The post ‘Incredibly positive’: Disability advocates commend Kansas Republicans’ effort on waitlists appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

The Proposals to Whittle Down a 10-Year Waitlist for Kansans With Intellectual Disabilities

Kansas families with disabled kids wait years for state help

States promise to help disabled kids. Why do some families wait a decade or more?

When Lilly Miller was in elementary school, teachers told her parents they needed to immediately sign up their youngest daughter, who has Down syndrome, for a wait list so the state would pay for a day program when she grew up. Lilly is now 21 and has aged out of special education programs in the public schools in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. A day program, where she would learn new job skills or flex existing ones while socializing, would cost between $1,500 and $2,000 a month, Marvin Miller said.

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