There are tons of stories today on CNN who has been leading in coverage of autism for some time now. Many of you want to know how Eni is doing. Fine!
- Today, I have a success story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eni is now 21. He attended a vocational school JVS Toronto graduated, attended the Geneva Center for Autism for resources
- Then the Hawkins Institute for Job training. They help high functioning Aspergers patients transition to normal life.
- Today, Enitan works at Cineplex movie theaters where he is a movie theater associate. He checks your ticket, cleans your left behind popcorn, stuffs tissue in the bathrooms every 30 minutes during bathroom checks and puts the reels of your latest movies in the projector and turns off the lights so you can enjoy the movies. He was with a job coach for only 2 days and he is alone now. He is a GOOD employee according to the employer.
- He lives in a one bedroom apartment provided by the Canadian Mental Health Association in a building monitored 24 hours by a site counselor. The residents are all disabled adults. Beautiful fully furnished and he receives some disability income from the government in addition to his job. He pays his own cable and phone bill at the bank monthly, he cleans his place and cooks his meals in his beautiful kitchen and he goes to the library everyday to check his MySpace and Facebook accounts which have greatly helped him.
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