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An extraordinary Vermont custody battle highlights an 'untenable' system of care

Linda Luxenberg says that Vermont has failed her son, a 35-year-old man with autism and a rare neurological disorder. Why has the state fought to be his guardian? ....

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'You need to get him out of there': Vermont man with autism lived in 6 facilities in one year

You need to get him out of there : Vermont man with autism lived in 6 facilities in one year
Isaac Fornarola, Burlington Free Press
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Travis Luxenberg, 33, looks out the window at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he stayed for several months over the spring and summer of 2020.
BURLINGTON, Vt. It was Christmas, and Linda Luxenberg couldn t wait to spend it with her son Travis in his new home. She had purchased a log cabin in Waitsfield, Vermont and called it Nice Place. There, Linda Luxenberg hoped, her son, who has severe autism, would be safe from the chaos that ran his life for years. ....

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Vermont struggles to find safe housing for man with autism

Burlington Free Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. It was Christmas, and Linda Luxenberg couldn t wait to spend it with her son Travis in his new home. She had purchased a log cabin in Waitsfield, Vermont and called it Nice Place. There, Linda Luxenberg hoped, her son, who has severe autism, would be safe from the chaos that ran his life for years.
This boy is going to have Christmas at Nice Place, with his sisters and his mom, she told the Burlington Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. She furnished the home and bought her son new clothes. Trav was in heaven. But what followed was less than idyllic. ....

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