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Tracking Bracelets for Autistic Kids and Senior Citizens
The Rocky River Police Department in Cuyahoga County, Ohio has started a pilot program to help find missing autistic children and senior citizens with tracking bracelets. For a monthly fee citizens can get a bracelet from the police department, who can then pinpoint the location of their loved one or object of obsession. From the article: "If someone wearing the bracelet goes missing, a family member or caregiver still must alert the Rocky River Police Department. The person reporting the incident or the police department then will contact EMFinders and give the bracelet serial number worn by the missing person, [police chief] Stillman said. While the police department follows its usual protocol for a missing person, EMFinders will send out a signal to the bracelet. In turn, the bracelet sends a signal to the 911 operator through the Cuyahoga Emergency Communications System (CECOMS)."
and you have to pay for it?
Daddy, what happened to grandpa? Well son, his bracelet blew his hand off when he tried to sneak out of the nursing pris^h^h^h^h home.
Watashi wa chikyubutsurigakusha desu.
Confused older people with screw and fiddle with it until they break it or remove it by any means necessary.
My credentials? Nurse on a telemetry unit where 90% of my patients are over the age of 70. If they are confused, they'll pull IVs, Central Lines, Foley catheters that are fully inflated...yeah, brilliant idea Ohio, but it ain't gonna work. If someone will pull out a golf ball sized balloon through their penis, a little plastic and fabric bracelet aint gonna stop em.
I have an autistic brother and there's no way he'd keep this on. Autistics have heightened sensitivity and many couldn't stand wearing a strap around their wrist all day.
That works for tracking everyone else.
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How long until this is used in the wrong way? Most people with access to the system would never do such a thing, but sooner or later it will become abused.
What else can happen when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
And then all kids, and all senior citizens, and felons, and immigrants, people on the do-not-fly list, anyone accused of DUI, anyone who demonstrates against the government, anyone who votes for the losing party, and finally, equality - tracking bracelets for all.
PS is it Autistic (Kids and Senior Citizens), or (Autistic Kids) and Senior Citizens?
Why would I want to do that? Do bracelets abscond that often?
It uses a 2 handed clasp. In theory you cannot get it off by yourself as the wearer.
In one case the 10-year old girl drowned and the other the other 11-year old boy was found alive overnight. There were media alerts to look for the victims before they were found. Water may have killed the first device or blocked its signal, although its not supposed to. The forensic analysis is not completed yet. Guardians are supposed to check batteries and devices every week.
So parents could find them if separated. I heard a story about this two years ago and nothing since. I have no idea of the popularity.
Eh, these trolls got tiresome a while ago, and they only thing you really had going for you was your dedication to generally getting first post. Without first, you're just another failure of a troll, like those assholes who post goatse links 400 comments into the thread like someone might actually click them.
Go to fucking hell, chironut. You really can't be serious.
You should chiro love the HOSTS file guy and generate the worlds most retarded child.
This is a first step for government control of all citizens. Really, unless they got Alzheimers a "senior citizen" does need to be tracked because they are not in any danger of getting lost. But now they are gonna first force anyone over 60 to wear this, then after the program is deemed successful according to some cooked statistics the age bracket will be lowered to 50 and so on. At the same time they will be putting pressure from below, pretty much anyone now can be diagnosed with autism or ad and forced to take medication and wear the bracelet until they are out of college at least.
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only old people wear bracelets
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It's all dandy and fine saying "with a functioning neural net, your body will heal", but what about tick-borne encephalitis, which attacks the nervous system itself, but can be prevented by a vaccine?
Like those?
I'm sure that's going to be popular.
I don't know if it's the exact model as what was being used in Colorado, but there were two failures within a week this month. The law enforcement had to be called out to do a night search for a kid that wandered off. A couple rangers found him unhurt around 2 am.
...You could just get them a cell phone on a family plan, authorize tracking of it, then watch their movements in something resembling realtime on the cell provider's website. That way, when Grandpa heads down to the basement to rub one out, you don't need to start a six-county manhunt.
Or better, stop playing games and just put 'em in a home. If you don't have the time to monitor someone like that 24/7 (ie, if you have to actually work for a living), you shouldn't have custody of them. For their sake and your own, place them in an environment that can properly care for them.
... with the location information public. After all, if you have nothing to hide...
anyone know of any good books about girls and Aspergers? By an author who isn't a anti-vaccers, it';s all in the poo, 'god can fix it', nut job?
I find that the most effective first step by far is to scrap the terms autistic and aspergers, as they tend to permanently confuse neurotypicals.
Next, ignore anything written by an advocate of "autism prevention"; if the author's "solution" is death by abortion, then ignore. Autistics get along well with other autistics, and to try to kill us all is literally like the holocaust.
Realize that every autistic's experience differs wildly from everyone else, and that absolutely nothing other than complete isolation is going to "solve" the problem - that is, make an autistic socially acceptable to neurotypicals.
My advice? Don't force contact with neurotypicals, don't force consumption of television/media, consider a GED as soon as it is an available option, and support careers friendly to autistics, such as nursing, medicine, science, technology, or farming. Avoid sales, marketing, customer service.
Read more at www.autistics.org.
Finally, don't take advice from neurotypicals about what an autistic needs or wants. You already know one; why not ask her?
Lock grandma in the basement and she won't wander off. Then invest all the money you save on monitoring fees in BitCoins.
That thing is awesome! It's lo-jack for whatever you can attach it to. I wonder how much it costs?
It's a pity Slashdot is afraid of it for fear of someone somewhere somehow abusing the device. How about we support a little freedom of choice in here and let people make up their own minds whether they want one of these. And if you're worried about the government getting these, well, I have some bad news for you.
Wasn't there a Law & Order episode with an autistic kid that had a tracking bracelet but took it off?
While the idea of putting it on those willing with autism or alzheimer's, if it can be taken off the problem still exists
Alzheimer wandering is very stressful for the family, especially the partner. http://www.alz-locate.com/ outlines the way this works... free for 2 weeks, and the $20 for 2 years. A son living in a distant city can get a call from his grandmother "Fred didn't come back from his walk. Can you see where he is on your computer?" The old Lady just has to keep the phone charged and in his pocket. The watcher can do the rest. You can tell her where he is. For /. readers the encryption and hashing are quite interesting. No person's name ever gets into the system, and everything except the optional email is irreversibly hashed (the email is there only for a forgotten password). There is no need to know who the watcher or the wanderer is, just where he is!
How about we force YOU to wear one, for your own good of course. YOU may not agree, but all of us here who really care about what happens to you have decided for you. What's the problem? It's a voluntary program--it was voluntary for us.
I've worked with these on a smaller scale. The version that looks like a watch for small scale dementia/mental health/alzheimer's locked units. They work great, until you find the watch attacked to the cat's collar, on a different patient, or behind the toilet.
Behave your grandpa to drink raw fresh non-processed cranberry juice straight for 3 days.
That's about 1.5 gallons.
No more Dementia.
I mean pulling out an inflated foley catheter would probably be like passing a good sized kidney stone.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
An interesting read is send in the idiots (named after a phrase a classmate would say over and over), which is a bit of a mash-up of philosophy and science. It essentially explores autism - it's a series of anecdotes as the author tries to track down everyone he went to school with. While this is dealing with autism rather than aspergers, a lot of it translates over (I've got aspergers myself), it gives a bit of insight into how we tick.
If you were after a more concrete, "help me deal with problems" book then I doubt you'll find much out there. Aspergers affects everyone differently, so even if you can find something there's no guarantee it would be any help (For example, I'm hypersensitive to light and sound, wheras someone else might not be able to concentrate if they're wearing jeans). Rather, I suggest you check out this website. The views are diverse to say the least (ranging from hating ASD to loving it), but most people are well balanced and if you have any queries they should be more than happy to help you out
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.
To all the "they'll take it off', "it will fail", "Autistics won't wear it", etc get a grip. No single solution will work with all people all the time but throwing a system that can protect 90% of the people wearing it is a good thing. Just because it is not perfect does not mean it should not be done.
You can DIY for $120 plus the cost of a cell plan with unlimited messaging. There are GPS cat trackers available that weigh about 50 grams and are the size of a couple of quarters and will send you a text with the location of the device, either automatically or on command.