Educational Special Needs And Autism

The costs of educating Autism kids is a huge burden on our school districts and it costs literally millions of dollars in each school year and many of these special educational need classes go on all-year overwhelming budgets. Autism kids require all sorts of costly evaluations and professionals such as psychologists, dieticians, neurologists, speech pathologists, pediatric occupational therapists, cognitive behavioral experts, disability consultants, and special education trained teachers w/assistants often 1 additional for every 5-8 students.

Many professionals believe that to properly educate an Autistic child correctly takes 20-hours of one-on-one help per week, critics of such expenditures often say; “who is paying for it?” To make matters worse when diesel fuel prices go up, the cost to transport these kids skyrockets too, along with the other transportation costs of the school districts.

Next, budget cuts often nix High School Freshman sports, refuse to pay for uniforms, coaches or transportation, at a time when these regular kids need healthy extra-curricular activities to prevent ditching schools, drug use, teen pregnancy, truancy and gang violence. Thus, parents are fighting against one-another for funds that support their own children. When things like sports are cut from the schools budgets parents of sport kids complain and point to the costs of special ed.

We need to find the funds and budget monies needed for both, Autism kids should not be thrown under the bus. Proper education and treatments now will pay off later in lower costs to taxpayers and society, as Autistic kids grow into full self-functioning adults, we need to be thinking here. We need more solutions.

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