Tag: Autism
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Republicans Endorse Autism Bill. In Other Business, They Buy Pig in Poke
Republican leaders in the House of Delegates have endorsed a bill to expand coverage for children with autism. Existing law requires health insurers to reimburse autism treatments for children between 2 and 10 years old only. The proposed law would eliminate the cap. The expanded coverage, which would help an estimated 10,000 people, would cost…
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Disadvantaged, Disabled and Homeless
In the last post I pledged to explore, and hopefully to explain, the social epidemic of broken kids. For all our rising incomes and for all our advances in health care, the number of children suffering from physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as the number diagnosed with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and other…
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Is Autism Increasing, or Is the Diagnosis of Autism Increasing?
The number of children with autism in Virginia public schools surged roughly 270% between the 2005-06 school year and the 2016-17 school year, far outpacing the modest increase in children with disabilities, according to data in the Virginia Department of Education SOL “Build-a-Table” database. Most other major classifications of disabilities declined over the same period,…