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

Colorado: Gov. cuts ABA therapy by $10M as "treatment spending surges"

The end of childhood
Dec 3
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Dec 1, 2025, Pluribus News: States debate painful cuts as autism treatment spending surges

https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/states-eye-painful-cuts-as-autism-treatment-spending-surges

DENVER — When Colorado Gov. Jared Polis slashed state spending by $105 million this summer to close a budget hole, he took aim at a fast-growing line item: behavioral therapy for children with autism and other disabilities.

The Democrat’s decision to cut spending on such therapy by $10 million has outraged parents and providers. They have sued to block the cuts and protested at the state capitol, arguing that Polis’s cuts could deny children life-changing treatment. . . .

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