It seems like every week I am reading an article about another
school district struggling to keep up with the expenses of
educating children with autism and how instead of adding
resources, they keep getting taken away! In South Carolina, $1.4
million were taken away from the already struggling programs.
This means that children might not get the needed treatment that
they need, such as ABA. More than $700,000 is being dedicated to
serving the children with autism, which will cover ABA for only
30 students. It seems to me that solutions must be found which
can spread the limited amounts of money further, how can schools
serve more children with the same amount of money while still
providing the quality treatment that is needed? It is time for
researchers to start thinking about solutions for schools, there
is a large amount of data supporting ABA and some other
approaches as well. However, I would like to see studies looking
at how to develop ABA treatments further so as to be able to
serve more children, per