>>>>>>I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother
>>>>>>http://gawker.com/5968818/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother
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>>>>>http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.ca/
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>>>>>She says she's the daughter of a Marine. She doesn't say if she keeps guns in her house.
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>>>>It wasn't my intention at all to incorporate this into the discussion on guns. It is a sad case of how little good psychiatric treatment is available without a lot of private funds.
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>>>I would take that further. The way I read that blog post, there is simply no effective treatment available for her son, at any price.
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>>>How can she be helped?
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>>At a minimum, by providing her with actual support. Respite, for example.
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>I didn't phrase that well. I meant, how can she be helped, to help her son?
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>Yes, respite might help her. But in her case I'm not sure how that would differ from involuntary commitment (for her son, just to be 100% clear). Her son doesn't seem too keen on that idea.
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>>As for whether there's effective treatment, it's hard to say from what was in the blog post. But there are a lot of things being tried for kids who have neurological differences. Finding them is hard, and sometimes expensive.
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>She sounds smart, informed, determined and courageous. I get the impression she's gone to the wall - multiple times - for her son, and still has no answers. And time's running out. It won't be long before he's physically stronger than her; he may already be a physical threat to his siblings. If he doesn't improve, how long will it be until the state steps in?

Right. There are schools (generally residential) that might be able to help this boy. But there aren't enough of them and you're talking in excess of $100,000 a year just for tuition (that is, not including the cost of travel to and from the school, etc.). Maybe, maybe, maybe you can get the local school district to pay, but it will probably be a fight.

Tamar