Direct Individualized Funding For Autism: What Is That?

In March 2003, I had the pleasure of addressing a parents’ group in Delaware on regressive autism. After I finished my talk, I went back to my seat and found my usually resilient wife visibly upset. When I asked her what was the matter, she softly answered that she would tell me later. 

As we embarked on our seven-hour drive back to Massachusetts in a torrential rain, my wife, now composed, explained. She said a young mother sitting next to her had confided that she’d had to make a choice two days earlier between buying a new stove, which she needed badly, or paying for her son’s supplements and vitamins. Her decision was easy: the stove would wait. 

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