Panel addresses school plans for disabled

Parents of children with disabilities asked questions to a panel of agency representatives that help their children make the transition to life after high school at a meeting Sept. 25.

One father asked about options for employment for his 14-year-old adopted daughter with full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome.

“We see her future as pretty bleak,” he told the panel of agency representatives. The meeting was in the Colfax library.

The panel included representatives from the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Whitman County Developmental Services Department, and a YMCA director gave out specific information on their services and answered parent questions.

The panel had also planned to speak earlier that day to teachers in the area, but no teachers showed up for the session.