Severe Autism Reality in New Brunswick - Heather R's Story

Heather R said...

Ihave a son who is 14 and severely autistic as well. I have had workers in my homw with him foe 2 years now. They told me it was sapposed to be only until we could get him some help. He needs an assesment and a medication overhaul where he went completly out of hand and uncontrollable during puberty. No hospital in n.b can take him. moncton refused him. I.W.K has been saying for the last year and a half the have no phycologist. I see a phycologist once every six weeks or so and we try something else. One of the medications made him bust through windows another gave him seizures. Right kow we have between 10-15 restraints were the workers hold him for from 15-40 minutes of tempertantrums.He wears a helmet so he won't poke out his eyes. Hockey shoulderpads so he wont bite his arm to shreads. He was bad when the workers first came with severe wounds up an down his arms but the hospital said it was no place for him, so we treated him at home. He also wears towels on his hands to prevent pinching and towels on his legs. My little boy is in crisis and we have no hospital that can even evaluate him. I have been waiting for help for 2 years,how much more can we wait. Sure they'll put him in a house if I can't stand it anymore but they would get him treatment.

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