As a parent of a child with autism, I find these increasing stories disturbing. There is an epidemic of autism in this country and you are going to find flights with these children as passengers on a regular basis. Their behaviors are not just of a behavior basis they are of a medical basis so removing them from the plane is discrimination. If the flight attendants only had to ask twice to try and quiet down, I do not see how they exhausted all of their efforts to resolve the situation without resorting to kicking them off the plane. I suggest you quickly bring on some training staff to teach your flight attendants how they might be able to help in a situation like this. As well as letting the other passengers understand that a child with autism is on board so he/she might be prone to letting out a little more noise than the norm. Once people are aware of the diagnosis they are much less likely to insult the parenting of a so called "behavior child". With a possible 1 in 67 children effected with autism (per Dr. Yazbak-from looking at school enrollment data), you cannot consider kicking them all off your plane. Unfortuanately autism, and it's cause, has been ignored by the government and medical community so long, that avioding autism is an impossibility. Have tools on board to distract these kids. Just as a restaurant has crayons and coloring books, the airline has to adjust. Society can not have become that uncaring and selfish to not adjust to a devistating disorder affecting children. That would be incredibly sad...
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