Cheerleaders pop and lock and leap. Lights twinkle all about the stands. Fans covered in gold and purple chant, “Skol.”
U.S. Bank Stadium is the place to be on Minnesota Vikings game day.
Yet, Jillian Nelson’s family doesn’t attend.
“When there’s a sensory space that allows you the inclusion to be there and participate in what you want, you will go,” said Nelson, who has two family members on the autism spectrum. “We don’t go there because the system is ineffective.”
Nelson, working with the public policy committee of the Autism Society of Minnesota, has been working on a series of legislative packages that would require local venues to go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act.