July 12, 2019, NBC6, Paducah, KY: Local school’s Special Education awarded funds for sensory rooms, augmentative communication technology https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/2019/07/12/local-schools-special-education-awarded-funds-for-sensory-rooms-augmentative-communication-technology/ The WHAS Crusade for Children has named McCracken County Public Schools for one of its 2019 grant winners. The Crusade awarded the school’s special education department $13,000 for sensory equipment and communications technology for students with special needs. The school says this support will and act like Hendron Lone Oak’s successful sensory program, but at two more schools. They say funds will also help launch an Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC) Library to test which AAC technology best supports each student’s needs. McCracken County School Director of Public Relations Jayme Jones says the number of high-need students in the county schools has increased by 66%, from 75 in 2015 to 125 at last count, with 97 students with autism. Jones says as the number of high-need students increase, so do the variations and complexities of their needs. She says this grant will give the counties students with autism and functional mental disabilities additional communication support and much-needed opportunities for sensory therapy, which will empower them to fully participate in and benefit from classroom learning….
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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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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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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