Schools scrambling to fill special needs
By Sue Doyle, Daily News
As the number of children diagnosed with autism continues to climb nationwide, public school districts are finding it hard to keep keep pace with some of their classroom needs, in particular with providing enough speech pathologists to serve them.
Today autistic children make up more than one-third of the special education population, according to the California Department of Education. California guarantees special education services for autistic children, who traditionally have communication troubles that can range from being completely nonverbal to other limited language usage.
But even as school officials search from New York to New Mexico for hires, they're finding it extremely challenging to meet classroom demands. Many are wondering why.
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