State is failing disabled citizens

If you were a parent of a child or adult with a developmental disability and you thought that this would be a state to move to that would be friendly for people with special needs in regards to the quality of services provided to children and adults, you would be wrong.

Illinois for at least the last 20 years, has been between the 46th and 51st in the nation in funding for housing, day care and every other service for people with developmental disabilities in the nation. If you thought that under Gov. Pritzger and his administration that life has got better under his leadership, in regards to providing such things as improved housing and Medicaid services for adults for such things as autism, you would be more than surprised at how incredibly little has been done in an Illinois General Assembly, which you would think would be looking out for the adult futures of people like my son and all others like him.

Too many years of neglect, many times intentional are leading many parents to look at other states for better futures for our children. Unfortunately, with the extremely severe lack of attention in the media, on the problems in the state system for the developmentally disabled, it will take a tragedy to wake people up to the fact that this issue will never go away.

Mike Baker

Schaumburg