Mar 8, 2017, Straits Time (Singapore): Parliament: Doctors and pre-school teachers to be trained to spot kids with development delays http://www.straitstimes.com/politics/parliament-doctors-and-pre-school-teachers-to-be-trained-to-spot-kids-with-development Doctors and pre-school teachers in the neighbourhoods will soon be trained to spot and screen children who are not hitting their developmental milestones so that they get help earlier.… The people targeted for this training are doctors at the hospitals, polyclinics and family medicine practitioners so that they will be able to screen the children for developmental conditions such as speech and language delays and autism spectrum disorders as well as pre-school teachers who can help detect children with such needs early. … Another 200 pre-school teachers, called Learning Support Educators, will also be trained over the next five years to support classroom teachers in helping children with developmental needs to mix well with other children.... Together with National University Hospital, it diagnosed 4,000 new patients in 2015. This was a 60 per cent increase from the about 2,500 new cases diagnosed in 2010, according to MOH....
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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
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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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