The Economics of Autism
Kevin Aylward:
If the financial crush of providing treatment to a single autistic child is staggering (estimates are that it will cost over $3 million dollars per child over their lifetime), imagine my dilemma. There's a variety of services and programs available to autistic children none of which are covered by the vast majority of private health insurers. There are intensive therapies with scientifically proven results available, again not covered by insurance. Do you want to know who our system in the United States has entrusted (or rather mandated) to be responsible "solving" the autism problem? The public education system. I'll give you a moment to ponder the implications of that observation...Kevin has three autistic children. UPDATE: More information on Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). Also, is it better to Promote or Retain (and "What of Remediation?").
April 25th, 2007 at 7:50 AM
Check out some of the vaccine injury websites. Its amazing how many children are now being diagnosd with autism, has to make you wonder. I like your website, I came to it by way of another