A single mom who is a regular guest at the Expanding the
Table dinner has an autistic adult male son she cares for. He is a large young man who is prone to having
violent outbursts when he gets agitated.
His mother is able in part to keep him calm by allowing him to listen to
Gospel music on her cell phone but it is often problematic when she gets a call
or needs the phone herself. Change for a
Dollar was asking the folks at the serving site if there was anything we could
do to assist the mother to help with the son.
In discussions it came up that the mother could afford to pay for
additional minutes on a phone plan but didn’t have enough money to purchase her
son his own phone. Change for a Dollar
offered to get the young man his own phone thereby allowing the mother to keep
her phone and in turn she could help control her son’s behavior/ outbursts by
him having his own phone.
Walmart “pay as you go phone” and data plan cards. - $184.82
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