New Program Offers Life Skills, Social Activity to Special Needs Teens and Adults
Connection of Friends, a new organization in Wheaton offers programming for teens and young adults with special needs as they age out of the school system.
When a student with special needs turns 21, their days are numbered until they are no longer eligible to go to school. While most parents toast to their son or daughter's first legal drink, parents of a young adult with special needs are planning for what happens on their 22nd birthday. Like many parents who have been planning since their child was in elementary school, Sarah Donnelly, a mother of two children of autism voiced concern for where her daughter would go at 22, before she was even a teenager. Sharing Donnelly's concern, her parents Terry and Ginny Kline researched programs and options for adults with special needs. In September 2012, they opened Connection of Friends a 501c3 organization that provides a place for social …
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