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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.)

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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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(Ireland) Dublin school to add autism extension unit

The end of childhood
May 3, 2021
1 min read

Apr 24, 2021, Independent: Pupils looking forward to new €3m extension https://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/pupils-looking-forward-to-new-3m-extension-40313050.html

Pupils and staff of St Nicholas NS in Nicholas Street are looking forward to the completion next year of a €3 million [$4.6M U.S.] extension to the school. Work began in February and is expected to be finished in April 2022. On the ground floor of the two-storey extension to the front of the original building will be a special needs unit for children with autism, with three new mainstream classrooms overhead. The development also includes a sensory room and sensory garden…. The Autism Classes, Infants and 1st Class returned on 22 February, followed by 2nd to 6th on 1 March. The autism unit, The Haven, is housed in a prefab on the adjacent Coláiste Rís playing fields, where it has been for the last couple of years….

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