Young adults with a dual diagnosis of autism and learning disabilities are being treated as if they are invisible and are being denied legal protection and statutory services when they leave school, parents in Derry have warned.
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00:00I think the message would be that I think we need to get behind Caleb's cause and we need to have
00:09post-19 legislation here in Northern Ireland and it's very important that the politicians get
00:14behind us now and act now and stand with Caleb and attend the rally and hopefully
00:21our children's voices will be heard and they will be seen.
00:25Yes, Caroline, how are parents feeling? Parents that you've been speaking to and
00:31yourselves as parents, how are you feeling knowing that there isn't the provision there
00:37post-education? It's a scary time to think that these young adults are just being forgotten about
00:44basically, that they are leaving education year in and year out and then just being at home with
00:51parents and there's very little provision there for them to actually go and have social interaction
00:56with peers and go out into the community and they just they deserve the support,
01:00deserve to be recognised.