Stop Canceling Options for Severely Autistic Adults

While our country faces a catastrophic shortage of supports, “activists have doomed many disabled individuals to receive no services at all”

By Susan Jennings

The words “Willowbrook” and “Pennhurst” conjure images of horror in the public mind — visions of naked, vulnerable, disabled people wallowing in their own filth, abused and neglected in large, cavernous warehouses whose very names have become bywords for suffering and human misery. Lest we forget their manifold horrors, we are periodically reminded of…