by Mary W Maxwell
Anne Dachel, at AgeofAutism.com, gave new statistics on May 10, 2018. I have abridged that list here to show rates of “special education” children in US schools and in some other countries. I am posting it today for Mother’s Day, as every mother of a special needs child has to work twice as hard as “normal” mums – who are already working hard enough!
SPECIAL ED [“sped”] PERCENTAGE
National official average is 13 percent.
Hazelton, PA: 15 percent of students are sped.
Sioux Falls, SD: 15 percent of students are sped.
Baltimore, MD: 15 percent of students are sped.
New Haven, CT: 15 percent of students are sped.
New Bedford, MA: 15 percent of students are sped.
New Hampshire Public Schools: 15 percent of students are sped.
Spokane, WA: 16 percent of students are sped.
West Virginia: 16 percent of students are sped.
Montclair, NJ: 17 percent of students are sped.
Duluth, MN: 17 percent of students are sped.
Fort Fairfield, ME: 18 percent of students are sped.
Red Wing, MN: 18 percent of students are sped.
Juneau, AK: 18 percent of students are sped.
Detroit, MI: 18 percent of students are sped.
Attleboro, MA: 18 percent of students are sped.
STATEWIDE Maine: 18 percent of students are sped.
Akron, OH: 18 percent of students are sped.
Falmouth, MA: 19 percent of students are sped.
Brooklyn, NY: 19 percent of students are sped.
Reading, PA: 19 percent of students are sped.
Brainerd, MN: 19.5 percent of students are sped.
Ashland, NE: 20 percent of students are sped.
Dayton, OH: 20 percent of students are sped.
Oakland, CA: 20 percent of students are sped.
Wahkiakum, WA: 20 percent of students are sped.
New Haven, CT: 20 percent of students are sped.
Muncie, IN: More than 20 percent of students are sped.
New Jersey: 20 percent of students are sped.
Glen Falls, NY: 21 percent of students are sped.
Princeton, NJ: 22 percent of students are sped.
Ellsworth, ME: 22 percent of students are sped.
Leominster, MA: 23.4 percent of students are sped.
Fitchburg, MA: 23.5 percent of students are sped.
Rockland, ME: 24 percent of students are sped.
Staten Island, NY: 24 percent of students are sped.
Woodland Hills, PA: 25 percent of students are sped.
Ireland: 25 percent of students are sped.
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: 26 percent of students are sped.
(UK) Scotland: 27 percent of students are sped.
Commercial Township, NJ: 27 percent of students are sped.
Clark County, KY: 30 percent of students are sped.
Note: Many of us can remember when there were one or two kids in the whole school who had special-needs education.
— Anne Dachel is a stalwart supporter of mothers of children on the autism spectrum. For seveal years she has hammered away at the media for misrepresenting the problem. The article from which the above list was taken is here.
— Mary Maxwell is the author of A Balm in Gilead: Finding a Cure for Autism and Awakening the Physicians
Well, son of a gun! The London-based facebook page “Autism Mothers” has had 218,806 likes.
Go on, make it 218, 807:
https://www.facebook.com/AutismMothers/
Whilst I realise autism has become a massive issue these numbers could very well be based on ADD misdiagnosis. Which, given the associated medical malpractice, is no less alarming:
https://www.naturalnews.com/036056_ADHD_overmedication_children.html
The kids who “merely” suffer some sort of vaccination-engendered allergy wouldn’t, of course, be included in an academic sped count and I can’t imagine how stressful it would be to have to constantly deal with what one bite of the wrong sort of cookie might do
Berry, Anne Dachel isn’t claiming that the SPED rates are all (or even mostly) autism.
What in the world is creating these disastrous figures and why is it that our controllers are not concerned? Is it because this situation is as planned? Depopulation, deliberate crisis situations, and medication galore on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry. What a success!
Happy Mother’s Day to all deserving Mums.
Mal, one of them is Cathy Jameson, who has written before at Gumshoe:
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http://www.ageofautism.com/2018/03/spring-cleaning-special-needs-files.html
A shame that more answers are not forthcoming to explain why this sad increase ?
Gaz, many answers are found if you use the Gumshoe search button for the word “autism.”
You can go to idoinautismland.com and get on Ido’s mailing list. He is only age 20 but is busy taking the younger autistic boys under his wing, especially to persuade them they that have a good brain and it is only their lack of speaking ability that prevents people knowing this.
This week Ido sent out a video by an autistic comedian. Very politically incorrect.
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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#search/ido/1634c9d6fbf6c8fe
Consider the lilies of the field. They neither reap nor sow nor worry about what to put on…
Sadly, the four kids — Taye, 13, Rylan, 11, Arye, 10, and Kadyn Cockman, 8 — found dead at the family farm, Forever Dreaming, were allegedly autistic. All FOUR.
Dee, the wrongly maligned Dr Andrew Wakefield wrote a book called War on the Autistic Child, in which he defends a family of 5 autistic kids taken away by the state.
— same as courts do when there is not even an illness, just break up the family.
In an Amazon review, I saw this description of Wakefield’s book:
“This book is broken down well into five parts covering the following subject matter:
(1) the issue of bowel disease in many children with autism, a matter that is central to the analysis that the author provides on the Arizona 5,
(2) a brief review of the history of MSBP,
(3) an introduction to the five children that includes a detailed review of their medical histories,
(4) the case made against the parents by the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES), its informants, its agents, and its legal counsel, as well as a deconstruction of the case, and
(5) a summary analysis of the case.”