Administration Cuts Funds For Autism Education Program

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Administration Cuts Funds For Autism Education Program

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AP - A program that teaches autistic children at public schools

will lose more than one million dollars in Medicaid funding at the end

of the year.

The state Department of Health and Human Services says it will

provide enough funding to get programs through the end of the school

year, but then schools will have to come up with other ways to pay for

the programs.

The program is called applied behavioral therapy and teaches new

skills to children with the brain disorder.

About 40 school districts are reimbursed by Medicaid for applied

behavioral therapy, which breaks learning down into tasks. About 3,000

children participate in the programs.