Monday, June 6, 2011

In New York, autistic boy's death signals dangerous state developmental disabilities system

From The NY Times. Michael Carey, Jonathan's father, is pictured at his grave.Jonathan Carey did not die for lack of money. New York State and the federal government provided $1.4 million annually per person to care for Jonathan and the other residents of the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center, a warren of low-rise concrete and brick buildings near Albany. Yet on a February afternoon in 2007,