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

E. Lansing, MI: MSU opens "sensory room" for autistic kids inside stadium

The end of childhood
Oct 2, 2023
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Sept 27, 2023, Spartans Wire: MSU’s Breslin Center opens sensory room for kids with autism https://spartanswire.usatoday.com/2023/09/27/msus-breslin-center-opens-sensory-room-for-kids-with-autism/

Michigan State has made a groundbreaking development with their home arena, the Breslin Center.

Thanks to former MSU player Anthony Ianni and Fredi Bello, a local pizza shop owner known as Fredi The Pizza Man, the Breslin Center has opened a sensory room inside the stadium for kids with autism. …