Jan 25, 2020, Fremont (NE) Tribune: Diabetes alert dog is helping Fremont girl https://fremonttribune.com/news/local/diabetes-alert-dog-is-helping-fremont-girl/article_395cbc3c-0a6d-53eb-8448-c97622bf4f73.html Alleecia McElroy has a constant friend in Jasmine. And Jasmine has the ability to help save the little girl’s life. Alleecia, who’s 8 years old and lives in Fremont, has Type 1 diabetes. About two years ago, Alleecia’s family began working to raise the $15,000 needed to get her a Diabetes Alert Dog that can provide a warning if the girl’s blood sugar level goes too high or too low. Fremont Cosmopolitan Club 100 and the Cosmopolitan’s international organization helped secure the last $2,000 needed…. Alleecia was 6 years old when she was diagnosed with diabetes. At the time, she hadn’t been feeling well. “We thought it was a cold and then she got really lethargic and couldn’t really stay awake,” her mom said. Tests at Methodist Fremont Health hospital indicated Alleecia’s blood sugar level was over 500, which is very high, Amber said. Alleecia was taken to Children’s Hospital in Omaha, where she was diagnosed and stayed about five days. She was placed on insulin and IV fluids. She remains on insulin and her blood sugar levels are checked. … A coach at Alleecia’s school told her family about another child being helped by a diabetes alert dog….
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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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