Local parents continue to fight for funding for adults with developmental disabilities.
On Friday, a large crowd gathered at the Ministry of Community and Social Services Office on Erie Street East, looking for improvements to services for their adult children.
Shirley Knight has two adult sons with development disabilities.
She says as of last Tuesday, both her sons started to receive funding from the provincial government.
Knight says prior to that, they were on waiting lists and it wasn't always easy for her or her sons.
She says her sons want to be out in the community.
"The special services at home should have kept continuing past 18, they should have never taken that away and that was very unfortunate," says Knight. "It's like you turn 18 and you don't matter anymore and our kids do matter so we have to remember that."
A rally was held at the Ministry of Community and Social Services Office on Erie Street. (Photo by AM800's Rob Hindi)
Knight says at the at the age of 18, those with development disabilities are no longer eligible to receive funding unless they are approved by the government.
She says there are long wait lists for services for adults with disabilities.
The rally was called "Nowhere to Turn" and was hosted by the Parents of Adult Children with Disabilities Advocacy and Support Group Windsor.