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Parents whose special-needs children have grown up worry about their offspring's future and employment.
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Jill Lim
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SINGAPORE – Fall down seven times, get up eight. That saying popped into my mind when I recently read the 2021 book Hard Landings: Looking Into The Future For A Child With Autism by American author Cammie McGovern.
In it, she recounts the challenges she and her husband faced in trying to create a future for their son with autism, Ethan, as he approached the end of his school years.
