Posted on 03/22/2008 12:41:56 PM PDT by Maelstorm
It is believed to be a first in Western New York. A traffic sign alerting drivers that there is a child in the area with autism.
Take a trip down Sargent Drive in the town of Amherst and you will no doubt see the traffic sign. It's a warning sign that there is a child in the area with autism. The Amherst Traffic Safety Board put the signs on the street Wednesday morning.
The father of Sawyer Aston, 8, took the idea of installing a traffic sign on their street to town officials several months ago. The idea was researched and approved.
According to the Autism Society of America, autism is the result of 1 in 150 births. It is the fastest-growing developmental disability.
Sawyer does not talk. His parents say he does not understand the danger of walking into the street as a car is passing by. The Aston's have taken numerous precautions to take keep Sawyer safe. He wears a tracking device and they have a fenced in front yard.
Wouldn't that just be your ordinary "Children at Play" sign?
-PJ
That would be the sign for a blind child.
Out in the boondocks of Hawkins County Tennessee there is a sign....Beware Blind Child at Play
While perfection is an admirable goal in any endeavor, especially taking care of a child, humans being humans, perfection is simply not possible.
How many times did your young children get themselves into some type of trouble, minor or serious, because you turned your head away for a split second?
The sign is put up as a "heads up" to an out of the ordinary situation. Nothing has ever gone wrong until now but, someday, it may. What is wrong with a parent giving a "heads up" in order to take every possible precaution for the safety of his child?
Because it comes out of someone else’s pocket.
As the Godmother of an Autistic child, I can tell you that no sign will take the place of an adult’s eyes. To ask the community to pay for it, puts the responsibility elsewhere as well. I may be slammed for saying this, but I have seen many a parent of a child with special needs that have a HUGE entitlement attitude. They should always get some special treatment because of that child. Not all, Lord knows but some.
Did the parent pay for the sign?
Dam i guess i will have to turn back
How Are you ?
>> And just exactly what is a driver expected to do,
>> or expected to expect the autistic child to do?
> That child may or may not react to the car.
The sign does not convey that.
Although I have a general idea of what autism is,
and that it’s a possibly over-diagnosed trendy PC
“disease”, I would not have any predictions as to
how the afflicted behave in traffic. I’m sure I’m
not alone in that.
“DEAF CHILD” would be more effective in getting
drivers to change their expectations with
respect to upcoming juvenile pedestrians.
What’s next: “A.D.D. CHILD AHEAD”?
Whoever is coming up with these signs is
frankly too close to the problem.
flame away
Yes it do.
I'm doing great...coming home next month for a little break. How are you these days?
Sign that you made a wrong turn:
That Clinton sign can’t be real because it doesn’t have bullet holes in it. The one I saw in Hope, Arkansas in 1998 had bullet holes.
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