Every year, the European Autism Week is celebrated in the first week of December. It's an opportunity to talk about the needs of people on the spectrum and their loved ones. Those of people with profound autism are hardly met. 80 percent of autistic people with high support needs need to live in a small home or assisted housing. The Autism-Poland Alliance is collecting signatures on a petition to the prime minister.
The idea is to provide dignified housing for the neediest people with disabilities as soon as possible by law. Today, the only systemic solution for these people in Poland is social welfare homes.
- These are institutions that deny decent living conditions and subjective treatment. They are too large, with too few staff, with rooms with many people and shared bathrooms in the corridor. Residents there are, as a rule, treated as objects, as they are directed to these places by administrative decision. They are...
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