You are correct. Intensive ABA therapy which is one of the most costly treatments (and best empirically supported, there are lots of meta-analyses) costs around $40,000 a year. The cost is basically just paying a full time aid to do the treatment. And that isn't even a lifetime cost since it is an early intervention. Even if you were to say that you needed a full time aid for the entire life that is only about $40,000 a year with adjustments for inflation.

You realize private schools can kick out low performing or behavior problem students right. Public schools don't have that luxury.

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There is another book http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Genes-Kathryn-Lance/dp/0445200049/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0 about a the Earth after a similar situation. I think this plot has already been thought out by SciFi writers.

I wonder if using chat and email instead of meetings will lead to more issues when companies are sued. It is a lot easier to deny knowing about some product defect if it is just talked about in a meeting. However, if there are chat or email records then the company is more likely to get into trouble. It depends on what sort of logs they keep and how often everything is erased.

Or how many households added cable. This could be just the normal adding and dropping of cable as people move or try to do without, but ultimately return to cable.

I wonder how all of these virtual interfaces work ergonomically. I could see how it would be really good because you could individually adjust components. However, I could also see how there could be complications from only working with hard surfaces and having no physical interface to support your hands.

I don't have references but studies we read in my child interventions class demonstrated that extrinsic motivators don't always extinguish internal motivation. The cases where this did happen is when people were rewarded for mindless busywork (pushing buttons), and those studies didn't match up to what people do in the real world at all. Other studies have found that if external rewards are used for interesting and challenging work (that is not impossible to complete) then internal motivation is actually increased. Being paid to read books, for example, could qualify as an interesting task. Perhaps the child would also find that as their reading skills improve they enjoy reading and their internal motivation to do it would be increased.