July 20, 2020, Berkshire Live: Free school for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Reading and Wokingham approved https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/free-school-children-special-educational-18627396 (SE England) Oak Tree School will accommodate 150 pupils with SEND A new free school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Reading and Wokingham has been approved. The Department for Education today (Monday) announced that Oak Tree School, which is being set up by Maiden Erlegh Trust, has been green-lit and is due to open in September 2022. It's hoped that the new school will go some way to addressing the lack of places for children with SEND in the area. Oak Tree School will accommodate 150 pupils with SEND and will be designated for pupils with a Social, Emotional and Mental Health and/or an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The special school has been planned to meet the increasing need in the boroughs, providing a local education setting for more children to remain close to home for schooling….
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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.
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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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