The Parti québécois promised aid for intellectual disability and autism

QMI agency

Thursday, 12 October 2017 23:25

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Parents of children with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum denounced the lack of resources available to them and the Parti québécois promised to respond to several of their requests.

Since last year, the group for trisomy 21 offers workshops TASA, for Technology at the service of autonomy. Unlike most of the other young people, they had never learned to do research on the internet, send emails, or even write up their grocery list.

“It stimulates me, because I am more autonomous and more responsible for my choices. And I know that I am a pro. Then, we are all pros at TASA,” explained Sabrina.

Intellectual disability is often forgotten when we talk about investment in social services, even more so when young people reach the age of 21 years. It has so much to offer.

“Schooling ends. So, there, these young people are often at home, left alone. The parents are either forced to quit their job, try to find an intermediate resource, a family somewhere,” explained the spokesperson for the PQ in the area of social services, Dave Turcotte.

The Parti québécois is committed to invest up to $ 60 million per year for intellectual disability, both for the autism, reduce waiting times for diagnosis and services, providing meaningful activities and/or working adults, to support families and community organizations.

“We just experienced three years of deficit of compassion, austerity, toxic. And we know that Quebeckers want a government that takes care of his world, who knows how to count, but from the heart,” added the leader of the Parti québécois, Jean-François Lisée.

The parents of Noah and Lilly-Rose testify to the impact due to the long months of waiting to get services.

“At the time it was supported, it already had accumulated a lot of delay. At the age of 15 months, she doesn’t sit still no,” said Stéphanie Cloutier, mother of Lilly-Rose.

Services that have allowed Lilly-Rose to make amazing progress, but that it does now, that by “episodes”.

“The child begins to acquire things. It has services for eight weeks or eight meetings. And, after that, it stops and starts again a little later. Therefore, there is no follow-up. It upset a lot of families,” said the director-general of the Grouping for Trisomy 21, Geneviève Labrecque.