May 20, 2018, Chatham (NJ) Courier: Empowering parents focus of special education seminar http://kdhnews.com/news/education/empowering-parents-focus-of-special-education-seminar/article_24213030-5bb0-11e8-a347-230d7fcff5ac.html
A special focus of Saturday’s seminar was dyslexia — a population of special education students who advocates argued are underserved by current state law.
Attorney Sonja Kerr said the state’s current dyslexia law disadvantages a significant amount of the student population with undiagnosed or mistreated dyslexia…
Kerr said around 20 percent of the population has some degree of dyslexia.
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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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017