Dec 14, 2019, Hartford (CT) Courant: Waiting list for Manchester school focused on kids with autism/behavioral challenges https://www.courant.com/community/manchester/hc-news-manchester-autism-school-expands-20191214-g7wysmqxvbfcrjpzritzlhcjxq-story.html …For most kids at this day school focused on autism and behavioral disabilities, the answer is “engine high.” The room holds a circular trampoline, a hopping ball and a climbing wall, activities designed to “regulate energy,” Director Cathy Danielczuk said during a tour of the Prospect Street school on Friday. A growing need for the specialized education offered at The Learning Center is pushing an expansion. School officials have applied to the planning and zoning commission to build a 42-space parking lot. An expansion of the 8,795-square-foot school is under consideration, officials said. The school for students ages 3-11 is part of Cromwell-based Ädelbrook Behavioral and Developmental Services. Founded as an orphanage in 1915, the organization serves about 300 children and young adults who are on the autism spectrum or have behavioral and health challenges. The Manchester school’s 30 students have been referred by school districts in the region. Sixty-two school systems and the state support the organization’s $40 million annual budget, Ädelbrook President and CEO Alyssa Goduti said. Enrollment at the Learning Center in Manchester soon will grow to 36 students, the maximum number that can be served in the current space, Danielczuk said. She and Goduti said there is a waiting list to get into the school. Nationwide, 1 in 59 children is diagnosed with autism and the rate has grown steadily for the past 20 years, according to the National Autism Association. …
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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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