Dec 9, 2021, Baltimore Fishbowl: Maryland appoints first statewide autism coordinator https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/maryland-appoints-first-statewide-autism-coordinator/
The Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives yesterday appointed Katie Gandy as Maryland’s first statewide autism coordinator.
In the new position, Gandy will work to initiate, develop, and implement services for Marylanders with autism and their caregivers.
Gandy will also develop a plan for addressing autism-related needs in healthcare, housing, employment, and identification and intervention.
The state’s autism coordinator will also serve as the chairman of the state’s Advisory Stakeholder Group on Autism-Related Needs.
“This new position will enhance outreach and education about autism in Maryland,” said Steven McAdams, the office’s executive director, in a statement. …
“I am excited to begin this new role and begin to build effective, wraparound resources for all Marylanders with autism, their families, and caregivers,” Gandy said in a statement.
“Maryland will remain a leader in autism education, therapy, interventions, and resources,” she said.
In Maryland, autism rates among 8-year-old children are up by 6.5 percent, according to a report by the CDC and researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The report found that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among 8-year-old children in Maryland was 1 in 49 in 2018, compared to 1 in 52 in 2016.
Researchers suggest that the rise in autism rates may be due to increased awareness around the condition.
The autism coordinator position was created last year under a bill signed into law by Gov. Hogan.
This is how the U.S. empire ends. The “United States of America” is really the “Divided States of Death and Despair“ since its inception in 1492 and its registration as a country in 1776 by freemason lunatics. George Washington destroyed entire Native American organic food crops and villages, and Benjamin Franklin kept deceased corpses under his house, according to videos I heard online.
Anne, I urge you to write much more serious articles about how the USA was never a free nor fair nation - and never will be - because AOA is deeply doused in nationalism which is country, symbol, and flag-worshipping idolatry. Remember the USA‘s poorest and sickest state, Mississippi, had the very first case of autism with…