Chicago Public Schools coping with a staggering rise in special ed needs, costs
<p>Tiffany’s only baby was turning 2 when she decided that she couldn’t ignore a giant red flag: Her son had yet to utter a word, while other toddlers were putting together short sentences.</p><p>At her pediatrician’s urging, she was ready to have him evaluated to figure out what was going on.</p><p>What happened next gave her an early indication of what she would be up against as she tried to get her son support. Every clinic she called in the city had a long waiting list.
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<p>Tiffany’s only baby was turning 2 when she decided that she couldn’t ignore a giant red flag: Her son had yet to utter a word, while other toddlers were putting together short sentences.</p><p>At her pediatrician’s urging, she was ready to have him evaluated to figure out what was going on.</p><p>What happened next gave her an early indication of what she would be up against as she tried to get her son support. Every clinic she called in the city had a long waiting list. It took a month to get an appointment and it was in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows, a nearly 40-mile drive from her South Side home.</p><p>When she finally got to meet with the psychiatrist on a video call a week later, she learned her son has autism.</p><p>“I didn’t really know what it meant at all and then there was a lot of sadness and grief,” Tiffany says now. She asked that her last name not be used to protect her son’s privacy.</p><p>But she told herself: “OK, we have to continue on, we have to figure this out and try to get him at his highest capacity, however that may look.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-c50000" name="image-c50000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a51c2f8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+0/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F25%2Fb8%2Fdbefee394de488a9918ab1d96137%2Fspedbudget-2607060526.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8e2d950/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+0/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F25%2Fb8%2Fdbefee394de488a9918ab1d96137%2Fspedbudget-2607060526.jpg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a7af207/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+0/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F25%2Fb8%2Fdbefee394de488a9918ab1d96137%2Fspedbudget-2607060526.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Tiffany hugs her son at his school's playground." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a7af207/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+0/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F25%2Fb8%2Fdbefee394de488a9918ab1d96137%2Fspedbudget-2607060526.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/97ad536/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+0/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F25%2Fb8%2Fdbefee394de488a9918ab1d96137%2Fspedbudget-2607060526.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a7af207/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+0/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F25%2Fb8%2Fdbefee394de488a9918ab1d96137%2Fspedbudget-2607060526.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>When her son had reached his second birthday without uttering a single word, Tiffany decided to have him evaluated by a psychiatrist.
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