January 12, 2021,Cision News: Yarrow Heights School planning a new Centre of Excellence for Special Education Needs in Southampton https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/yarrow-heights-school-planning-a-new-centre-of-excellence-for-special-education-needs-in-southampton-833513818.html A consortium of specialist education investors has acquired the former site of the Senior Department of St. Mary's Independent School in Bitterne Grove, Southampton. The site has been renamed Yarrow Heights School. "The plan is to establish a new day school for pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN), aiming to open in September 2021. The school will serve the needs of an increasing school-aged population diagnosed with SEN in South East England," said Anne Marie Carrie, Chairperson of Yarrow Heights School and former CEO of Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity. The number of school aged children diagnosed with acute SEN in South East England has increased 46% from 2015/16 to 2019/20. [1] Most of these children struggle to cope in mainstream school settings. … …"There are simply not enough high-achieving specialist schools to meet the needs of these young people," Karen said…. The school will be co-ed, 7-16 years old with a capacity of 60 pupils. [1] Table showing Headcount for 'Age and gender - by SEN provision, type of need and school type' for Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty, Severe Learning Difficulty, Social, Emotional and Mental Health and Statement or EHC from 'Special educational needs in England' in South East between 2015/16 and 2019/20,...
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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
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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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