FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The city of Fayetteville and Supporting Lifelong Success for Neurodiverse Adults is moving forward with its community designed for neurodiverse people at Kessler Mountain Regional Park.
“This whole concept started through my little sister’s experience with autism,” said Ashton McCombs, executive director of Supporting Lifelong Success Community.
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Supporting Lifelong Success for Neurodiverse Adults or SLS is a non-profit that aims to bring resources like housing, long-term support, services, and job opportunities to neurodiverse adults in the community.
“It reached a threshold where she needed clinical interventions and she had to move out of state for four years because we just didn’t have the services here,” said McCombs.
McCombs says the nonprofit aims to bring those resources to Fayetteville for families and adults like his sister. Neurodiverse adults are described as adults with autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy …