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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

Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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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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- Oct 29, 2023
- 1 min read

FORBES: More grocery stores offering "sensory-friendly hours"

Oct 4, 2023, Forbes: Tomorrow’s Grocery List: 6 Supermarket Concepts Worth Watching https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennmcmillen/2023/10/14/tomorrows-grocery-list-6-supermarket-concepts-worth-watching/amp/

Creating sensory-sensitive environments. An estimated one in 20 people may live with sensorydisorders, such as aversions to harsh lights and loud noises, which trigger anxiety and limit activities.

Several retailers are responding by designating sensory-friendly times and accommodations. Among them is Walmart, the nation’s largest food seller. Over the summer it introduced sensory-friendly hours on Saturday mornings to accommodate back-to-school customers and their kids.

And in the United Kingdom, a range of supermarkets, from Aldi to Tesco, are offering (or testing) quiet hours, with lowered lights, toned-down checkout noises and discontinued overhead music, the UK’s Love Money reported in August.

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