the death of 7-year-old Harbe Nagi,<\/a> who was found dead in a pool in Menands last week following a search that lasted for multiple days.\u00a0<\/p>\nHarbe was what the senator calls non-verbal and autistic.<\/p>\n
According to Fahy, the legislation would make swimming lessons specialized for children living with disabilities “Medicaid-eligible,” which would allow Medicaid home and community-based services to cover the cost of those lessons. It would also require New York state lifeguards to undergo specialized training related to autistic children and those living with disabilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, autistic children and those living with disabilities are 160 times more likely to die from drowning than their peers, and this legislation establishes a framework to begin expanding tailored swimming lessons for autistic children and those living with disabilities, improve preventative safety, and establish commonsense safeguards. One drowning death is too many, and no parent should ever have to experience the pain of losing a child,” Fahy said in a statement. “This legislation ensures that we\u2019re taking proactive steps to prevent future tragedies, and honors and memorializes Harbe\u2019s young life, one cut far too short.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York state Sen. Pat Fahy has introduced a bill that would expand access to swimming lessons for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":925441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[40737,5229,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,17545,5227,80,13570,22007,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-925440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-state-senate","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116895622878656610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}