Living With Cerebral Palsy
There is great debate about where a child should be educated. I have been to both special and mainstream schools. I believe, regardless of disability, a school should explore you as well as you exploring it.
Howard Sanders was born with cerebral palsy. Here he describes his experiences of both mainstream and special schools and his desire to experience normality.
Debate rages over the best educational route for children with SEN, even for seemingly similar children, with very similar conditions...
If a child is profoundly deaf, should...
Damned by dyspraxia, blinded by dyslexia? Don't despair - help can be there!
It isn’t necessarily the type of school you attend, it’s about others understanding...
Right from the start of year 8 at mainstream school I started misbehaving and losing my temper very easily.
I still don’t really know why I did. From the start...
From purgatory to pride: a parent’s experience of ADHD
'No one teaches you how to be a parent, let alone of a child like ours. Our son has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder...
Seldom do special needs neatly fit into one category. Here, a mother describes how her son was diagnosed first with ADHD and later with dyspraxia. Co-morbidity is...
My son signals he needs to leave the room to release a flurry of tics by asking the teacher if he can get a drink of water. Depending on the nature of the tics, it may be...
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