Federal lawsuit critical of SC agencies in care of disabled
COLUMBIA – Strapped inside his wheelchair, Kobe’s face twists and gyrates as his head bobs.
The battery to his computer screen and speech generating device has once again become disconnected and Kobe, who suffers from cerebral palsy, wants to say something.
After a worker in the group home in which he lives reconnects the cable, Kobe shares his thoughts.
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The Columbia man and his care are the focus of a five-year-old federal lawsuit that alleges South Carolina agencies improperly denied or attempted to deny services and equipment to some of the state’s vulnerable adults. It also alleges that officials improperly capped services for the disabled using an argument of budget cuts.
Among some of the other allegations in the suit are that officials acted to terminate privately operated adult day health care services for some disabled people to force them into DDSN work activity centers "for the financial gain of DDSN and its local DSN boards."
Read more: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2017/01/21/federal-lawsuit-critical-sc-agencies-care-disabled/96531390/
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