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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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- Jul 3, 2021
- 1 min read

(UK) Northern Ireland: Schools get extra $50M for special ed

July 1, 2021, Portadown Times: Extra £35.7m [$50M U.S.] for Special Educational Needs welcomed https://www.portadowntimes.co.uk/education/extra-ps357m-for-special-educational-needs-welcomed-3292894 NI

MLA Jonathan Buckley said: “I am extremely pleased to see that the funding proposed by Education Minister Michelle McIlveen has been allocated for special educational needs schools across NI. “The Minister has made it clear how much of an impact Covid-19 has had on SEN schools and the pressures it has placed on staffing and maintaining their delivery of education. “Within Upper Bann, I am immensely proud of the quality of SEN teaching on offer between Donard Special School in Banbridge and Ceara School in Lurgan. It’s essential these schools have the support to continue helping pupils develop and grow. “Within this allocation, mainstream schools will also receive funding for specialist support.”

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