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Hope – for peace in his heart

David is really struggling over the last 24 hours. A majority of it is his response to his primary staff leaving. That he formed that strong a bond with someone is important. So while I understand that his behaviors are negative right now, maybe we need to look at it from a different angle. He formed an attachment of some kind with someone. This has only happened a couple of times in his life that I know of. So this is huge! Is it appropriate? Maybe not always, but it should still be celebrated. So we are trying to work with David and the staff at the facility to show David that it is ok. That how he feels is ok. With the Autism, David doesn’t understand sadness. He understands how different emotions get him different things, but he doesn’t understand emotions. So the key is to show him that

Reactive Attachment Disorder – attach to everyone but family.

We have known that David has Reactive Attachment Disorder for a while. It is a fact of life. In the current residence, David had been doing well. Until. About 10 days ago, David’s primary left employment at his facility. David evidently was pretty attached to her. As his behaviors have gone down hill since she left. He apparently likes his new primary, but is still coming to terms with the “loss” of his last primary. Since the primary he attached to left, they have had to call in the Event Support Team a couple of times for David and put him on a modified plan. He eats by himself with close supervision by the staff, among other things. He is still doing well in school. At night, he has difficulty sleeping. On one hand I am happy that David can establish relationships, close relationships to people. It is nice to

Permanently Institutionalized

Today, we received a notice from Medicaid for David. It was a notice informing him that he is permanently institutionalized. The notice went on to state that if he dies, Medicaid MAY decide to recover any payments from his estate, or the estate of his spouse if he is married. He is deemed permanently institutionalized if he has been in the facility for more than 6 months. ===== It is your standard form letter. printed and mailed. this begs for two questions. Unless this is a new rule… 1. David has been in other institutions for more than 6 months each. Why didn’t they send a letter out then? 2. Do they understand that he is only 13? I realized that he could have an estate if we bequeath him our things upon the passing of the whole family. I guess since Medicaid thinks that he is living independently, anything