June 16, 2019, Hagerstown, MD, Herald Mail Media: Waynesboro school board approves behavior-support agreement https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/tri_state/pennsylvania/waynesboro-school-board-approves-behavior-support-agreement/article_0a733152-4429-5f59-9abe-56dac06c9d18.html WAYNESBORO, Pa. — Behavioral-support services will continue to be available to students in the Waynesboro Area School District in the 2019-20 school year. The Waynesboro Area School Board unanimously renewed its agreement with Laurel Life, a licensed psychiatric service in Franklin County, Pa., to provide behavioral-health services to students. "They provide behavioral-health services to schools across the county," school district Superintendent Tod Kline said Tuesday night at a board meeting. "It's no cost to the district, to my understanding." Laurel Life provides behavioral services at local schools, which includes assessments, counseling and behavioral interventions designed to promote a student's social, emotional and academic success. Under the agreement, Laurel Life will provide behavioral-health services, including therapy to students having difficulties in their mainstream education. "This service is intended to address underlying mental-health conditions, which are often manifested through behaviors," the agreement states. "The (school) now has additional resources to address behavioral concerns while keeping (its) focus on student learning and education." The Waynesboro school district won't be responsible for the costs associated with any services provided by Laurel Life, the agreement states. Sherri Sullivan, the school district's director of special education and student services, told the school board in January that the Laurel Life program helps return students to their mainstream education…. To maintain continuity of care, Laurel Life also will provide services during the summer, the agreement states. A therapist at the school will determine if students already receiving support services should continue to do so in the summer.
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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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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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