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

(Canada) Ontario: $134M (US) boost in autism school funding to $694M (US)

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Mar 26, 2026, Toronto Star: Ontario budget: Small boost for schools, money for autism

Education funding will increase slightly over the next three years — though critics say it doesn’t keep up with inflation — and the province is promising more money for autism services as well as controversial police-in-schools programs, the government announced in its 2026 budget. . . .

•A boost of $186 million in funding for autism, to $965 million. . . .