Mar 12, 2020, Disability Scoop: Ed Department Records Steep Rise In Students With Autism https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2020/03/12/ed-department-records-steep-rise-in-students-with-autism/27964/?fbclid=IwAR0ASs4sz_dOUzO6hH6i2qyWFMdC6pVNDvo1R5OHMnotbG_7dZmw2FXSMPw The percentage of American schoolchildren receiving special education services as a result of an autism diagnosis doubled over 10 years. New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that 10.51 percent of all students with disabilities ages 6 to 21 in 2018 were identified as having autism. Just a decade earlier, that figure was at 4.97 percent. The numbers come from a collection of “fast facts” on autism released this month by the Education Department’s Office of Special Education Programs. It’s based on data collected from each state as mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Across the nation, the percentage of students with disabilities who had autism varied by state, with a high of 15 percent in Minnesota during the 2018-2019 school year. By comparison, only 5 percent of students with disabilities in Montana were on the spectrum at that time….
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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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
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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