My daughter is a speech and hearing professional at a regional health center. Being such, she works with numerous autistic children of differing ages and capabilities. One is an extremely violent, non-verbal, non-white, 270-pound teen-age boy. He has thrown heavy objects and smashed furniture during one-on-one sessions with my 105 lb daughter. Fearing for her safety, she requested a second-party be present during her her sessions with this man-child. Clinic managers initially refused, in the (apparent) interest of political correctness, to comply with her request. My daughter has since resigned her position (for multiple reasons) and accepted a job working with pre-schoolers. The clinic’s negligence in protecting my daughter from a potentially dangerous situation is (in my opinion) borderline criminal. Apparently the administrators of the medical center are more concerned with the potential for media outcry or legal recourse from the boy’s family than the safety of clinical professionals in their employ. Very sad, indeed, when our society has deteriorated to this point.
