In Their Own Words: The Autism Scholarship
By Stuart Marsh
Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the author exclusively. The piece is unedited and its original form, at the author's request.
By Stuart Marsh
Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the author exclusively. The piece is unedited and its original form, at the author's request.
Autism is considered one of the most complicated and hardest to understand childhood neurological disorder. My cousins was my inspiration for fighting for a scholarship for autism in California. I am a student that has overcome my leaning disability and still fights to overcome ADHD and dyslexia. The way that I overcame my learning disability was the help of a privet school named Springer. If my cousin along with other kids with autism had the money form the government to go to a school like Springer they could try to achieve that goal to overcome
autism. The state of California should start an autism Scholarship to help families that need to work, and more importantly this would help children have a successful school life.
California needs the autism scholarship more then any other state because they have the greatest number of kids with autism in the nation. The population of students with autism under the age of 18 in California is nearly 10 million. In addition, one out of 100 children are diagnosed with autism before the age of three and just ten years ago the chances of being born with autism was one in every 10,000. Equally important, Ohio has an autism Scholarship program distributes anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000 a year and helps 3 million kids. his scholarship helps the kids because they have money to access aid or a resource that can help them have success in there school life If California had a similar scholarship, the students with autism would enjoy a more academic success. This is why the state of California should adopt the scholarship.
My aunt and uncle have a son named Zachary Vitto, and he has autism. His dad, Ken works 12 hours a day and drives one and a half hours to work. Zach's mom, Diane is the chair of one of the most interactive and successful autism charity walks in Orange County and is always thinking about new ways to raise money for the walk. Even more amazing, when she is not working with Zachary she is on her Black Berry convincing popular movie stars and singers to come and walk for autism. The problem here is that Zach siblings are seeing him more than his parents. If there were “the autism Scholarship” they would not have to sacrifice their family time.
In the classrooms, California students that have autism their accommodations are not being meet. If the child had a specific amount of money to spend on an aid to follow them around or for resources like a laptop or books on tape. For most of the people they do not have enough money to afford those resources. The aid would help a student with autism because the person would follow them around and help they in the areas they struggle. A laptop would be useful because kids with autism could have trouble with writing and would not to type it right on the spot and is a very excellent way to stay organized. Most of the children with autism have difficulty in the concept of reading; from my experience one way to resolve this issue is books on tape. If the students had this resource they could comprehend the books and be active in the classroom conversation. If the kids with autism had money that the government gave them they could have all of these wonderful resources.
These are all of the reasons that the autism Scholarship should be in affect for California. As Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel said “Nothing Great Comes Easy”. This is the best way to describe autism and it is up to the government to fulfill this dream of the parents and the children.
Stuart is the 14-year-old nephew of Diane Vitto, the Executive Walk Chair of the Orange County Walk Now for Autism. Stuart has a reading and writing disability, ADHD and dyslexia. In swimming, he has three Junior Olympic cuts and a zone cut in the 50 freestyle and he swims about ten times per week now during the summer for his team, CAC (Cincinnati Aquatics Club).
California needs the autism scholarship more then any other state because they have the greatest number of kids with autism in the nation. The population of students with autism under the age of 18 in California is nearly 10 million. In addition, one out of 100 children are diagnosed with autism before the age of three and just ten years ago the chances of being born with autism was one in every 10,000. Equally important, Ohio has an autism Scholarship program distributes anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000 a year and helps 3 million kids. his scholarship helps the kids because they have money to access aid or a resource that can help them have success in there school life If California had a similar scholarship, the students with autism would enjoy a more academic success. This is why the state of California should adopt the scholarship.
My aunt and uncle have a son named Zachary Vitto, and he has autism. His dad, Ken works 12 hours a day and drives one and a half hours to work. Zach's mom, Diane is the chair of one of the most interactive and successful autism charity walks in Orange County and is always thinking about new ways to raise money for the walk. Even more amazing, when she is not working with Zachary she is on her Black Berry convincing popular movie stars and singers to come and walk for autism. The problem here is that Zach siblings are seeing him more than his parents. If there were “the autism Scholarship” they would not have to sacrifice their family time.
In the classrooms, California students that have autism their accommodations are not being meet. If the child had a specific amount of money to spend on an aid to follow them around or for resources like a laptop or books on tape. For most of the people they do not have enough money to afford those resources. The aid would help a student with autism because the person would follow them around and help they in the areas they struggle. A laptop would be useful because kids with autism could have trouble with writing and would not to type it right on the spot and is a very excellent way to stay organized. Most of the children with autism have difficulty in the concept of reading; from my experience one way to resolve this issue is books on tape. If the students had this resource they could comprehend the books and be active in the classroom conversation. If the kids with autism had money that the government gave them they could have all of these wonderful resources.
These are all of the reasons that the autism Scholarship should be in affect for California. As Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel said “Nothing Great Comes Easy”. This is the best way to describe autism and it is up to the government to fulfill this dream of the parents and the children.
Stuart is the 14-year-old nephew of Diane Vitto, the Executive Walk Chair of the Orange County Walk Now for Autism. Stuart has a reading and writing disability, ADHD and dyslexia. In swimming, he has three Junior Olympic cuts and a zone cut in the 50 freestyle and he swims about ten times per week now during the summer for his team, CAC (Cincinnati Aquatics Club).
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