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

(New Zealand) 2 special schools planned for "high and complex needs"

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Jan 28, 2026, The Post: ‘It’s so life-changing’: First specialist schools to be built in 50 years

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360939501/first-specialist-schools-be-built-50-years

Queen Elizabeth College in Palmerston North will be the home of one of two new day specialist schools to support children with high and complex needs, the first built in New Zealand in 50 years.

The other school will be at Ngākōroa School in Drury, south of Auckland, and the Government is putting about $40 million [$24M U.S.] towards the two projects.

The first stage of the Palmerston North school will include four teaching spaces, therapy facilities and outdoor learning areas, and it will cater for up to 36 students from the wider region. The closest specialist school to Manawatū now was Arahunga School in Whanganui.