Mar 6, 2020, Orlando (FL) Business Journal: Academy chalks up local expansion plans https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/03/06/academy-chalks-up-local-expansion-plans.html A Melbourne-based firm that provides services for children and teens with conditions like autism and attention deficit disorder plans to expand in Central Florida. Puzzle Box Academy's executive team is targeting up to 10 locations in Osceola County to open in the next 12 to 18 months, CEO Pamela Furr told Orlando Business Journal. The company is considering locations near public elementary schools or with access to buses. The company's existing locations offer services ranging from school to after-school programs for pre-kindergarten up through 12th grade. … Dozens of new jobs to be created As part of that push, the company expects to hire and train more than 100 employees, Furr said. Those positions will include behavioralists, registered behavioral technicians and administration staff…. Puzzle Box's expansion comes as related company Puzzle Box Academy of Orlando Holding LLC received more than $5.5 million in funding as part of an equity deal with an undisclosed party on March 2, according to documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Continued expansion Puzzle Box is not the only local autism service provider in expansion mode. For example, Lake Mary-based Florida Autism Center LLC added 16 new therapy centers in 2019 to total 50 at the end of last year. That's up from only five centers roughly four years ago. The company grew its revenue from $4 million in 2016 to $40 million in 2019….
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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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