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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least in our county (LCPS) disabled kids can go to public school until age 21. Our neighbors have a profoundly disabled son (wheelchair, doesn’t talk) and he’s in that 18-21 window now. Still goes to HS for a few more years.

They are definitely going to keep him at home long term though.[/quote]

IDEA guarantees that any student with a disability is entitled to services until they graduate with a regular diploma or the school year when they turn 21. If they have a GED or a modified diploma, they can still attend school and get services.

I've never checked, but I think that may be the case for regular ed in many states. I went to high school with a 20 year old girl who had left to marry at 16 and then went back at age 19, and this was in the early 70s.

Re: the group homes: I live in a state that mad a major deinstitutionalization lawsuit filed by the ARC in the 70s. Besides emptying the state institution (it still has some residential services it operates for a very small number of people in group home settings) there was a huge push for independent living with supports for residents who got moved to group homes. I worked part time in a group home while in college, and we had people moving into apartments, sometimes with a roommate who was also disabled, sometimes not, with fulltime staff who were considered profoundly disabled. And a lot of people with intellectual disabilities live on their own with supports. The litigation was under federal court supervision for over 10 years by a judge who was very committed to the ARC goals. It was very ironic when, after his retirement, he developed dementia and ended up in the middle of a fierce family fight which ended up with him in a locked memory care ward, it was kids vs. a second wife although I don't remember which side wanted the locked ward. [/quote]

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