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    California's proposed budget cuts would leave many autistic young adults without a safety net

    Kate Movius knew it would be challenging when her son Aidan, who experiences profound autism, turned 22 and aged out of the programs and services provided through his school. What she didn't anticipate was the two years she would spend in a fruitless search for an adult program that fit her son. Ultimately, the family ditched the wait lists and created their own form of weekly programming for ...
    by Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times Apr 23, 2024 4 minutes
    Families protest the level of services the state provides to disabled people at a demonstration outside the Regional Center of Orange County in Costa Mesa on Sept. 29, 2022.

    Kate Movius knew it would be challenging when her son Aidan, who experiences profound autism, turned 22 and aged out of the programs and services provided through his school.

    What she didn't anticipate was the two years she would spend in a fruitless search for an adult program that fit her son. Ultimately, the family ditched the wait lists and created their own form of weekly programming for Aidan and others in the community.

    Finding an open space in a program that fit Aidan was made even more difficult by a staffing shortage among service providers, which couldn't keep up with the demand from the growing developmentally disabled community. That shortage, Movius said, stemmed from the providers'

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