June 4, 2018, WBKO, Bowling Green, KY: Bowling Green Independent Schools implement mental health training for administration http://www.wbko.com/content/news/Bowling-Green-Independent-Schools-implement-mental-health-training-for-administration-484528271.html Bowling Green Independent Schools are training to tackle overall mental health concerns inside their schools to improve the learning environment. From preschool to high school, several students endure tragedy at some point. "25 percent of students in our school have had some level of trauma exposure," Miriam Silman, representative from the Center on Trauma and Children at the University of Kentucky, said…. "Kids behavior is there for a reason, and sometimes the things that don't make sense to us on the outside, if you can peel away at what's going on in terms of a child's feelings or thoughts, that may have been impacted by their experiences," Silman said. … "As a special educator, having a safe spot in a classroom to where students can go when they're feeling anxious or feeling stressed out, they can go and calm down," said Patty McDougal, director of special programs for BowlingGreen Independent Schools. Other techniques involve making connections and building trust with students that allow administrators to get more information about their traumatic ecperiences outside of school walls…. School administration said that several other schools in the district have signed up for the training as well.
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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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