Due to this, she had to move to Los Angeles along with her parents. When author Cammie was 7 years old, her father accepted a job offer to teach at UCLA Law School. Cammie has an older sister named Elizabeth McGovern. Her father, William McGovern Jr was a professor at university, while her mother, Katherine Wolcott, was a high school teacher. Author Cammie’s birth took place in Evanston, Illinois. The other three books of her are adult novels. Author Cammie is particularly famous for her romance book Say What You Will. Her writing career consists of just 4 novels so far and all of them are widely successful. She asks the tough questions: What should parents prioritize as they ready their children for adulthood? How do we redefine success for our children? How can we sustain a hopeful attitude while navigating one obstacle after another?Īs Ethan makes his way into the world, McGovern also looks into the hardest question of all: How can we ensure an independent future when we're gone? Hard Landings will serve as a renewed beacon of hope for parents who want to ensure the fullest life possible for their child's future.Cammie McGovern is a reputed author from The United States, who is well known for writing contemporary, mystery, romance, thriller, fiction, young adult, and suspense novels. McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing-and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. Here, McGovern expands on her #1 New York Times piece, 'Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism,' a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the 'Disability Cliff.' By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources.

A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.Īfter sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22.

Hard Landings by Cammie McGovern