Aug 13, 2019, 11 Alive, Atlanta, GA: UGA to screen all incoming freshman for mental health issues https://www.11alive.com/article/news/education/uga-to-screen-all-incoming-freshman-for-mental-health-issues/85-33fe8f5e-1a52-489e-9051-31d3d6215931 ATHENS, Ga. — For the first time ever, 7,000 freshmen are getting mandatory mental health screenings at the University of Georgia. The screenings will happen right when students check in, and as 11Alive's Kaitlyn Ross explains, it's meant to shift the culture on campus. The school said it wants students coming in prepared, and UGA believes this screening will help them make the transition. UGA Student Scott Eisenburg knows how hard it can be walking into freshman year…. Eisenburg helped start the new mental health initiative on campus because he said he knows how important it is to maintain all aspects of a student’s health…. Organizers set up 14 different booths to talk to incoming students about the things they were worried about. … The hope is that the mental health screening will set the tone for the new student's entire career at UGA. …
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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.)
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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