Catch-Up

In my regular surfing and researching, I found this statement in an article "Few Tenn. teachers have autism training" :

"School districts are trying desperately to get people trained," said Linda Copas, director of behavioral and autism services for the state Department of Education. "We haven't had a curriculum addressing this disability in universities and colleges. There's been no legislation how to deal with this certain disability. This disability is so common, but school systems don't have guidance on this. It's taking a long time to catch up."
This is what's going on in our state and all across the country. It's scary to think what will happen if we don't take a direct preventative approach. We need legislation and we need educators who can help these children learn. We are learning soooo much about children with autism. It's possible that Mozart and Einstein had autism~think of the possibilities of liberating the potential of some of these brilliant little minds. Think of the tragedy if we don't too. And all the while time passes and more and more children enter society with this particular disability.

At the top of the wish list for helping families dealing with autism should be parents' rights to choose their child's education. That means we have to make some allowances~in the public education system and in our public policies~see the 2 posts just before this one for more on that. Truly, the societal benefits would be great!