Maryland To Hire First Statewide Autism Coordinator

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland is looking to prosecute its archetypal statewide autism coordinator.

The presumption wrong the Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives would enactment connected services and programming for Marylanders with autism and caregivers.

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“Maryland is simply a person successful uncovering and promoting the quality wrong disablement for our children and families, by providing enactment to those successful our assemblage who are addressing disablement challenges each day,” Steven McAdams, the office’s director, said successful a statement. “Children with autism are already accomplishing large things, and I’m arrogant to physique connected our state’s committedness done our archetypal Autism Coordinator who volition absorption connected this important contented for parents, children, and caregivers.”

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The presumption was created nether a measure Gov. Larry Hogan signed into instrumentality past year.

The coordinator would beryllium tasked with processing a program to code autism-related needs successful employment, housing, wellness attraction and grooming for archetypal responders and transgression justness professionals.

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Applications are being accepted online.

CBS Baltimore Staff