June 11, 2018, (Canada) ON: Mississauga.com: 'If all you do is call 911, the person may die'; city asked to store EpiPens in public spaces https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/8663981--if-all-you-do-is-call-911-the-person-may-die-city-asked-to-store-epipens-in-public-spaces/ Decision to keep EpiPens available for use would follow Peel District School Board, Hamilton. Bruce spoke to Mississauga city council during a general committee meeting on May 29, and her message was clear: to have epinephrine autoinjectors (EpiPens) available in public facilities…. Peel District School Board has also stocked EpiPens at all their schools. Bruce was instrumental in getting the lime green safety kit into all of Peel’s schools, and Mississauga Fire delivered the kits to every Peel school between March and May this year…. CAI says 2.6 million Canadians — about 7.5 per cent or one in 13 people — have at least one reported food allergy. The majority of those affected are under 35, and the number is higher for those under 25. Health Canada identifies peanut, tree nuts, milk, egg, fish, shellfish, sesame, soy, wheat, mustard, and sulphites as priority food allergens.
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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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