We are STILL waiting for services after losing our long time worker for our ten year old severely autistic son. We went through the appeal process and got assigned a different kind of care and twice as many hours per week, but because they've cut back so much we can't find a decent trustworthy worker. Allotted hours don't mean a thing when you can't get a worker because they've cut the pay scale. As things are right now myself and my other two teen children pretty much just deal with it all ourselves (my husband works), and we manage as best we can with the aggression and the poopy diapers and destruction to our home and property. What choice do we have? He's usually a good boy but he has regressed so much since we lost our worker over two months ago that it will probably take a year to recover once we finally find a new one. And our son is just mentally disabled. I can't begin to imagine what the folks with physically disabled children are going through...