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Welcome, Missouri!

by Beth

Easter Seals and Life Skills logoWe have something big to celebrate in September: this Sunday Life Skills, an agency serving 5,000 individuals with disabilities in Missouri, will affiliate with Easter Seals. That’s right: on September 1, 2013, Life Skills officially joins all our other Easter Seals affiliates and service sites across the country to provide services to people with disabilities and special needs in their local communities.

Both Life Skills and Easter Seals were founded by parents with the goal of creating a better future for people living with disabilities, and Life Skills’ outstanding record for meeting the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families throughout the state of Missouri makes this partnership a perfect fit.

Our new Missouri affiliate will continue to be known by Life Skills, but starting this Sunday, September 1, 2013, they’ll use our Easter Seals name and logo, too. Welcome to the Easter Seals family, Life Skills!


 

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  1. Dawn Mason Says:

    August 27th, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    How will this new transition from LifeSkills to partnering with Easter Seals affect services for people who are High Functioning Autistic on the Spectrum? I am 36 and was assessed by Touchpoint for Autism and they diagnosed me with Autism in Dec. 2012. My doctors back up their statements and I have been able to get help quicker for Behavior Therapy with Green Maxville and Associates.I am on a waiting list for the St.Louis Arc organization in their Parents Learning Together program.I wish more organizations out there helped parents who were the Autistic ones and not just their children who are autistic.I was a child of the 1980s and there was nothing for me in the school system for Autism. Only mental retardation.There was a fight with placing me in the Gifted program and some labeled me as retarded.But I am on the other side of the Spectrum.I also do not want to be forced to put my son in daycare just to get help with my Autism and cannot afford it, either.I do not enjoy separation anxiety.And neither does my son who is 16 months now.I am a Stay at Home mom and very supportive of my husband getting his degree in Psychology.