Greensboro TEACCH Center

Update. It is hard for me to review Teacch.

If It wasn't for them I would have been lost. I was diagnosed with autism late in life. And they worked with me to get my mind straight.

If it wasn't for them, I would certainly be lost. I fit in the world better due to them. They certainly fill a need.

But I came back years later to join the part of their Teacch that helps people get jobs for autistic people. I really wanted one, but it has been so long not working, it is hard for me to get a job without help because I have nothing to put on a resume. Also, I could use the backup they provide at first due to my absence having a job in 20 years, and my inability to communicate easily with groups.

I desperately wanted a job. And for well over a year, they kept promising I would get there.

But it never happened. It has now been well over a year. No-one should have to wait that long for a job. But this is not the problem...

The problem is I would not hear from them for months at a time at all. It was like I was just forgotten, with punctuation marks when I'd come in and they would talk with me about what they were going to do. Maybe they have their card full helping others. And that's great. Because autistic people need help.

But if no-one is getting a job and everyone is getting helped, this is useless.

What they really need is more money so they can hire more help. This way they can help more people quicker. The world would spend less giving jobless people money. Instead they would be making it and feeling good because they fit in.

This system is broken.

That said, it is extremely useful, getting autistic people in the work force who want jobs, and can be a useful part of society.

But all I got out of this was a hopeless feeling and severe depression wanting and failing to get a job.

I only felt better when I finally put my hands up and gave up. I suddenly felt relieved. I feel good now not having one.

OK. I'm not going to get a job. I still have autism, but at least I feel good about myself now. For a couple of months, now, I am writing a novel, daily, at a coffee shop. I meet the same people there daily and chat with them. I feel good that I am going to write about something that I believe will help others when I'm done. And I am social.

Top recap.

There are too many people being helped and therefore, few actually get help. There aren't enough people working there. Teacch is indispensable. They need more money and donations.

Still five stars. But they need help at Teacch because this isn't working.

I was actually very disappointed. I had high hope especially after my son was diagnosed with ASD at 2 1/2 by the CDSA. I filled out the paperwork, and mailed it off. They contacted me when my son's name came off the waiting list. Our first session in September 2016 went great but it was cut short (though, that was no fault of theirs) but now that it's June 2017, my son has not been back do to lack of follow up with Allison Buttwinski. I have called repeatedly, dropped by, and left constant messages. It was not until I asked for another worker for my child that they returned my call. Allison apologized for the inconvenience and told she no longer did session at the moment and would pass Aidan's name onto another specialist. This was is March of 2017.

Needless to say I was upset and very disheartened. I am a first time mother with an autistic son and that is a challenge in and of itself, but when the people who are designated to help you seem to just don't care about your child, it does something to you.

Anyway this was just my personal experience.

The only thing they do here are evaluations and the waitlist is 10-12 months! They advertise group therapy, social skills, and other services but it's a joke and they need to redo the website to we'll see your kid in a year then your on your own