Aug 19, 2019, Norwich (CT) Bulletin: Local school that serves students with special needs to open https://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/20190819/local-school-that-serves-students-with-special-needs-to-open DANIELSON - A new school that serves students with special needs is opening this school year in Windham County. High Road School of Windham County aims to serve local school districts who have exhausted all local options in attempting to serve the needs of students with various special needs. Districts who are interested would send those students to High Road on a tuition basis. “We are flexible and available for what the community needs,” said Deana Tyler, the regional director of the High Road Schools of New England. The school is part of Catapult Learning, Inc., a nationwide company that runs special needs schools and programs in districts, serving more than 500 school districts and 200,000 children. Catapult has other schools in Connecticut but none in Windham. The new school is located at 95 Westcott Road in Danielson. “We really saw a need in the Windham County area,” Tyler said. The school could serve students with a wide range of conditions—from emotional disturbance and ADHD to those on the autism spectrum and those with learning disabilities, Tyler said. The High Road School aims to help those students that need help beyond what the local school district can provide. “We’re specialists,” Tyler said. “This is what we do—special education.” …
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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).
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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.
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