Mar 25, 2019, Mass Live: Holyoke H.B. Lawrence School unveils Sensory Walk - fun way to focus https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/03/holyoke-hb-lawrence-school-unveils-sensory-walk-fun-way-to-focus.html HOLYOKE – H.B. Lawrence School unveiled on Monday the district’s first Sensory Walk where students can hop, skip and jump their way to a stress-free day. On a side hallway, the colorful walk gives students a structured movement break, which helps them refocus or work-off some steam. Besides hopscotch, the children can zig-zag over letters, leap like a frog, count numbers, step gingerly through a figure-eight or do wall pushups. The walk also curbs disruptive classroom behavior by providing gentle, engaging exercises. Alissa Izzo, the district’s behavior specialist, said Alison L’Heureux, who runs the Therapeutic Intervention Program, came up with the walk idea. Izzo said sensory walk kits can prove expensive, about $1,500 on average. … Several schools in the district inquired about the sensory walks. “We would like to get it in other schools,” she said….
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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.
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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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