Cash plea for disabled children

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One such service is the Special Needs Activity Centre (SNAC) inPort Talbot which is one of the few centres in Wales wheresometimes severely disabled children and their families can relaxtogether.
Kirsty Harding, 16, who has autism, said SNAC was the only placeshe is allowed to socialise because of her disability. NicolaSpooner, who has a son with severe autism also described howsignificant the centre was to her family.
"If SNAC were to close, I don't know how I'd cope. I can't take aseverely autistic child out into crowds. There'd be nowhere I couldtake him and my daughter," she said.
'Charity handouts'
But SNAC's president John Rogers said the centre barely scraped byon grants and charity handouts.
"We've had AMs from all political persuasions and they go: wow,this is great because it's the only club of its type in Wales andthen we step back and think OK, is there any money going to arrive?And it doesn't."
In November 2007 most AMs backed a call for