Nov 24, 2019, Daily Stock Dish: School disability services fall short of rising Demand https://dailystockdish.com/school-disability-services-fall-short-of-rising-demand/ The number of children with disabilities waiting for support from the Education Ministry has increased even though the ministry is helping more children than ever. The ministry worked with more children with special needs in the year to June but the number on waiting lists also grew. The ministry worked with 36,476 children with special needs in the 12 months to the end of June, 4 percent – or 1353 – more than in the previous 12 months. However, the number of children on waiting lists during that time also grew by 107 to 4237, and the average waiting time remained unchanged at 80 days. Wellington had the longest average wait times including 170 days for early intervention, 118 days for communication services and 75 days for behaviour services. Wellington Regional Primary Principals Association president Mike Farrelly said more funding had gone into special education, but it was taking time for the ministry to hire the right staff and in the meantime schools had to pay for support from their own operating budgets. “You have got your most vulnerable children sitting on waiting lists and that‘s a problem. So your children who have significant learning needs, mental health issues, severe behaviour, are the ones that you‘re putting your time, energy and effort into to try and support and those resources just aren‘t forthcoming and that‘s putting a strain on the system as a whole,” he said. Mr Farrelly said schools were seeing more children receiving support but it was not keeping up with demand…. …the number of children on waiting lists should have reduced by now. “We would have expected or wanted for those numbers to be reduced. We would have wanted the waiting lists to be halved, if not quartered, if not done away with altogether so it is problematic that we have more children with unmet needs, more children on waiting lists.” Autism New Zealand chief executive Dane Dougan said it was great more children were getting help, but he was worried that the number of children on waiting lists had not reduced. “The fact the waiting lists haven‘t changed and have in fact grown is very concerning,” he said….
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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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