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

Plymouth, WI: Local/national 'declining birth rates'; "more young children" in SPED

The end of childhood
Apr 24
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April 25, 2025, Plymouth Review: More children qualifying for special ed, even as birth rates decline, psychologist says

https://www.plymouth-review.com/articles/more-children-qualifying-for-special-ed-even-as-birth-rates-decline-psychologist-says/

More young children are qualifying for special education services in the Plymouth School District, a team of early childhood staff told the Plymouth Board of Education at its April 14 Committee of the Whole meeting. “As a district, as a state, as a country and as a world, we are seeing declining birth rates,” school psychologist Tina Helmer told the . . . Subscription required for the rest.