Children with autism miss out as school districts make their own rules
Children with autism miss out as school districts make their own rules By Tracey Tully New York Times,Updated April 28, 2021, 10:16 a.m. Email to a Friend An empty classroom at a closed school in Manhattan in July 2020.Ashley Gilbertson/NYT Eric Alarcon, who will be 4 next month, has autism. He can say a few words and identify a variety of dinosaurs. He lives with his parents in Secaucus, New Jersey, a 10-mile drive from midtown Manhattan. Eric and his peers in a special-education class have had about 100 hours of in-person instruction in the first eight months of the school year.