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

(UK) Essex: Elem school to build SPED extension

Apr 5
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April 5, 2026, Essex school to expand with new space for children with special needs - Essex Live

An Essex school will build an extension with more space for specialist areas to support children with special needs. The works at Great Totham Primary School in Walden House Road will mean children with “diverse” sensory processing needs are better supported. It will see a single-storey side extension to the existing and detached so-called ‘Treehouse’ classroom. . . .

The school says it has “limited internal space to adequately support” pupils with additional educational needs, including children with ADHD, ASD, and other sensory processing difficulties. . . .