[Nyah]

For 19 years, the Telfords have been supervising their severely autistic, non-verbal son, Philippe, guarding him against what is for him an always dangerous world. He is a wanderer: the police have gone looking for him more times than she can count. Inside the house, too, little is safe. Because of his diabetes, even a loaf of bread on the kitchen counter is a hazard.

On Saturday, he left the house and walked four kilometres, across busy streets, and ended up at a restaurant. Two days later, he found some pills in the house, although they were not easy to get at, and swallowed 14 of them. Later that day, after they got him home from the hospital, he slipped out of the house again and into the house of strangers a few blocks away. It was a house in which three women live, and Philippe is, by now, six feet tall and weighs 215 pounds. Telford says, however, that the women were able to understand the situation and were kind about it.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/...011/story.html

This is a really sad situation. Does anyone know the kind of resources available to parents who have autistic children, particularly those that reach adulthood? Does the government have support groups or things of that sort? I have a friend who has an autistic son, and I hate to think of her having to face something like this down the road because she feels desperate.