[Blog author note--HB 3000 is mentioned towards the end of this newsstory from the April 30, 2009 Statesman Journal.
[Blog author note and comment: The news story from the S-J illustrates as much as anything why HB 3000 must pass so that families of children with autism can access necessary therapy by health insurance coverage of the medical condition of autism-- if parents are "fighting", as stated in the news story, for FIVE hours a week of school-supplied therapy (The recommended amount is at least 25 hours of intensive programming per week year-round).
As a point of reference, there are parents in the state whose children are almost ready for ADULT SERVICES who were advocating for some of the stated changes when their children were preschoolers or early elementary age, and others who worked on the previous Caring for Oregon's Students with Autism Task Force created under SB 765 (1999), Oregon CHAPTER 1046, and studied the same issues and made recommendations in a produced Report almost TEN YEARS AGO .
Concrete action a little quicker than that is not a matter of preference or desiring change to "turn on a dime"--It is an overdue necessity.
The blog author does not want to face a dismal prospect of today's preschoolers with autism ten years into the future still waiting for change and ability to access competently delivered evidenced therapies at the appropriate intensity as recommended by the US Surgeon General in 1999, the National Academies of Science in 2001, and the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2007]
Advocates push for autism services
Oregon lacks system to identify, treat kids, one lawmaker says
By Tracy Loew • Statesman Journal
Oregon lacks system to identify, treat kids, one lawmaker says
By Tracy Loew • Statesman Journal
[Blog author note and comment: The news story from the S-J illustrates as much as anything why HB 3000 must pass so that families of children with autism can access necessary therapy by health insurance coverage of the medical condition of autism-- if parents are "fighting", as stated in the news story, for FIVE hours a week of school-supplied therapy (The recommended amount is at least 25 hours of intensive programming per week year-round).
As a point of reference, there are parents in the state whose children are almost ready for ADULT SERVICES who were advocating for some of the stated changes when their children were preschoolers or early elementary age, and others who worked on the previous Caring for Oregon's Students with Autism Task Force created under SB 765 (1999), Oregon CHAPTER 1046, and studied the same issues and made recommendations in a produced Report almost TEN YEARS AGO .
Concrete action a little quicker than that is not a matter of preference or desiring change to "turn on a dime"--It is an overdue necessity.
The blog author does not want to face a dismal prospect of today's preschoolers with autism ten years into the future still waiting for change and ability to access competently delivered evidenced therapies at the appropriate intensity as recommended by the US Surgeon General in 1999, the National Academies of Science in 2001, and the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2007]
