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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.)

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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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Tampa: Elementary school gets therapy dog to "decrease anxiety and aggressive behaviors"

Jun 9, 2018
1 min read

Feb 19, 2018, Tampa Bay, News 9: Meet Merlin: Therapy dog helps Tampa elementary school students http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2018/2/19/meet_merlin_therapy_.html A therapy dog is relieving academic stress at Oak Grove Elementary in Tampa. Each month, Merlin visits the school on the 6300 block of North Armenia Avenue. The dog is there to help students who need extra support. "If I'm mad and I touch him, he calms me down," fifth-grader Tony Corbett said after playing with Merlin. Teacher Anna Gibbs said she has seen a decrease in anxiety and aggressive behaviors in her classroom since Merlin started coming to the school. … "They're able to focus when they're stress levels are down," Gibbs said. "They're able to focus more on their school work and have more academic achievement when they are less stressed and less anxious."

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