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) St. Helens: Special ed block "to expand into full suite of classrooms"

The end of childhood
Jul 24, 2021
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July 22, 2021, St Helens Reporter: Four new classrooms drop in at Rainford High https://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/education/four-new-classrooms-drop-in-at-rainford-high-3318907

W. central England The classrooms will form a new geography block which will allow the school’s SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) Everyone Succeeds Centre to expand into a full suite of classrooms in the main school building. The expansion secures Rainford High’s future commitment to being a centre of excellence for inclusion by its wide-ranging support for students with identified needs and vulnerabilities.