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Article: Agency serves as model for special needs advocacy.(Schools)(Support: The Eugene nonprofit organization helps parents negotiate for services.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2002
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Byline: TIM CHRISTIE The Register-Guard
Terry and George Kimball grew so frustrated with the treatment that their autistic son Jack received during his kindergarten year at a Springfield elementary school that they talked about hiring a lawyer.
Jack and another autistic child were isolated from the rest of the kindergarten class, and the parents tried without success to get Jack integrated into the rest of the class, Terry Kimball said.
"I was beating my head against the wall and getting nowhere," she said.
Then a friend suggested the family call Direction Service, a Eugene nonprofit group that helps people with special needs children ...