McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing-and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. Here, McGovern expands on her #1 New York Times piece, “Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism,” a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don’t exist and a life he can’t have. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the “Disability Cliff.” By aging out of the school system, he’ll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources.

Supply Detail Distributor: Penguin Random House Availability: Available On Sale Date: Carton Quantity: 12Ī game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.Īfter sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22.Paperback / softback, Trade paperback (US), $24.00ĪD AE AF AI AL AM AO AQ AR AT AW AX AZ BA BE BF BG BH BI BJ BL BO BQ BR BV BY CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CN CO CR CU CV CW CZ DE DJ DK DO DZ EC EE EG EH ER ES ET FI FM FO FR GA GE GF GL GN GP GQ GR GT GW HK HM HN HR HT HU ID IL IQ IR IS IT JO JP KG KH KM KP KR KW KZ LA LB LI LR LT LU LV LY MA MC MD ME MF MG MH MK ML MM MN MO MQ MR MV MX NC NE NF NI NL NO NP NU OM PA PE PF PL PM PS PT PW PY QA RE RO RS RU SA SD SE SG SI SJ SK SM SN SR SS ST SV SX SY TD TF TG TH TJ TK TL TM TN TR TW UA UY UZ VA VE VN WF WS YE YTĪG AU BB BD BM BN BS BT BW BZ CC CM CX CY DM FJ FK GB GD GG GH GI GM GS GY IE IM IN IO JE JM KE KI KN KY LC LK LS MS MT MU MW MY MZ NA NG NR NZ PG PK PN RW SB SC SH SL SO SZ TC TO TT TV TZ UG VC VG VU ZA ZM ZW

Hard Landings by Cammie McGovern