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

(Ireland) 20,000 children waiting longer than 6 months for special needs assessment

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Feb 16, 2026, Irish Examiner: Q&A: New autism protocol aims to tackle delays in ...Assessment of need

Many questions are being asked in disability communities about the new autism protocol and approach to assessment being rolled out this spring.

As numbers of children overdue for an assessment of need (AoN) spiral past 20,000, we put people’s questions to the HSE.

However, the number of people waiting longer than six months for an assessment has risen to 20,209 — a 42% increase from 14,221 a year earlier. At the same time, 45% more AoNs were completed last year compared with 2024.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

(Ireland) 20,000 children waiting longer than 6 months for special needs assessment

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