Aug 29, 2018, Inside Indiana Business: AWS Foundation Awards Grants http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/38985582/aws-foundation-awards-grants FORT WAYNE- Non-profit organizations dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities in northeastern Indiana have been awarded grants from AWS Foundation. This round consisted of over $618,000 in grants Organizations receiving grants: • Ancilla College: $10,000 for scholarships for their autism program…. • Drake Goetz Memorial Park: $35,000 for accessible playground. • East Noble School Corporation: $15,299 for sensory room at East Noble Middle school. … • Habitat for Humanity of Greater Fort Wayne: $55,000 for ReStore job skills training for individuals with disabilities. • Huntington University: $35,000 for the ABLE program. • Joe’s Kids: $25,000 for operating support. • The League: $25,000 for operating support. • McMillen Health: $25,000 for Varied Abilities Days. • Mental Health America of Northeast Indiana: $75,000 for VASIA program and $30,000 for Kids on the Block. • Visually Impaired Preschool: $21,250 for early childhood intervention services in Northeast Indiana. • Whitley County Consolidated Schools: $9,999 for sensory room at Mary Raber Elementary.
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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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