Danny Combs

They're trying to get as many as they can.

They do the best they can.

The reality is people don't all learn the same way.

They don't all retain information the same way.

They don't all progress in their skill development.

Some elevate really quickly, then slow down.

Some progress really slowly, then all of a sudden they can do all these amazing things.

And that's OK.

I think it's an opportunity, too, to really reframe on a broader scale.

How do we relook education in general?

How do we relook training in general?

Because even neurotypical kids aren't being served in the ways that they deserve to be served.

If you would have told me five years ago, you think that we were still overcoming COVID.

I mean, that just feels like a lifetime ago, right?

And what we all went through with that.

In five years, honestly, I would love to see that the entire system has changed to the point that we don't even need programs like this because everybody is doing this, that we have truly embraced our entire community, that we have shifted as a system, that genuine inclusion of equality of opportunity exists for everybody uniformly.

That would be the dream.

I don't think we'll be there.

And especially having a chance to not work in the state government, seeing how slow the ship turns.

But I think we can get more interested parties and the more folks like you that take the time to listen to those of us that are, you know, kind of practitioners in a way that are demonstrating that this idea can work.