Jan 31, 2019, WISH TV, Indianapolis, IN: School on Wheels selects 'Education Champion of the Year' https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/school-on-wheels-selects-education-champion-of-the-year-/1742047968 It's called the "Education Champion of the Year" and in 2018, it went to a person whose work is going way beyond academics. Megan Thomas is a Social Worker at Cold Spring School in Indianapolis. As the Education Champion Award winner, she was selected by the School on Wheels panel of judges School on Wheels granted Thomas a $1,000 to use towards a project or program that will help their students. She invested her award money into a sensory room. It's a room built to help kids with high energy and behavior issues work through their issues while getting them one-on-one attention. This is her way of keeping them out of trouble and on track in the classroom….
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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
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"The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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“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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