Dec 20, 2018 Bardstown, KY, Kentucky Standard: Bardstown Schools looks to add sensory room https://www.kystandard.com/content/bardstown-schools-looks-add-sensory-room Bardstown City Schools is looking to add another sensory room to its campuses with the help of a 2019 WHAS Crusade for Children grant, an application for which was approved at the Board of Education’s Tuesday afternoon meeting. For the last several years, grants have been used to improve school and play access for children with special needs. Past projects have included a new playground space at the elementary school, an accessible indoor play area for preschool students and a sensory room at the middle school. The new sensory room, also called a Snoezelen Room, would be placed at the Bardstown Early Childhood Education Center, the district’s preschool facility…. The rooms include items such as light curtains, rainbow tubes, learning panels and other items designed to provide a therapeutic environment to reduce agitation and anxiety, which can be beneficial to children with autism or developmental and behavioral disabilities. In addition to creating a new sensory room, the grant would also help provide updates to an existing sensory room at Bardstown Primary School, which was built with grant funds in 2011. The amount requested to complete both projects is a little more than $38,000. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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