Oct 19, 2018, Detroit (MI) Hometown Life: Canine comfort: Therapy dogs help students cope with trauma https://www.hometownlife.com/story/life/community/observer/garden-city/2018/10/19/therapy-dogs-help-students-cope-trauma/1654928002/ …Members of Go Team Michigan Therapy Dogs, the three canines are visiting locations in Wayne, Oakland and Livingston counties, including Cambridge High School in Garden City, where they mingle among students in their classrooms and even take to the basketball court at lunchtime. … …The dogs visit the high school three days a week. The idea of therapy dogs fits in well with Cambridge High School’s focus on being a trauma-informed school in which the staff has prepared to recognize and respond to students who have been impacted by traumatic stress. … “In delving more into trauma-informed schools, I found that yoga, chill rooms and therapy dogs were resources that can be used with students when they have high anxiety, PTSD and/or living with trauma everyday,” Eves said. “It’s hard for students to concentrate on academics when they face these issues daily. “The goal is to not only provide tools to cope with extreme situations, but to create an underlying culture of respect and support,” Eves added….
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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.)
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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