Jennifer’s daughter has autism and epilepsy, and at 11 years old was diagnosed with Lennox Gastaut Syndrome. Some of her seizures were uncontrollable crying episodes. Emma is completely non-verbal and during the pandemic she didn’t understand virtual school and cried because she saw her friends and couldn’t understand why she couldn’t see them in person. Emma goes to a school an hour away from her house and Jenn had multiple battles with the different transportation companies. When a new company took over the route and sent a new driver, they got “lost” for 5 hours. The state police found them in Camden. Now Jenn is pushing for legislation to make sure that all busses have a GPS, a communication device (a phone) and cameras on all vehicles transporting Special Needs kids.
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