Feb 19, 2020, Tampa, FL, News Channel 8: Hunter’s Green Elementary offers new sensory room for students https://www.wfla.com/top-stories/hunters-green-elementary-offers-new-sensory-room-for-students/ HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla Recently, Hunter’s Green Elementary School opened the Comfort Corner, a place where kids can come and reset to help them be more successful in the classroom. “It’s not just going to be for students identified as having a special need, but it will be open to every student,” said ESE Teacher Joni Cagle…. “Whether they need a weighted blanket to get in the corner to bundle up, the light stimulation, we have noises, we have fiber optic lights, we have tunnels, bouncy exercise balls,” Cagle added. And even though the room has only been open for a few weeks, teachers are already seeing a difference in students. All of their skills are increasing, their attention, believe it or not they come back to class and they can pay more attention and be more focused because they have been able to come here for a few minutes, said ESE Specialist Yaritza Jefferson….
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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.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
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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