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whats your opinion on children with special educational needs and schooling

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Added by: freespirited39 on 15/04/2008

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do you think it is difficult to get a child with special educational		is this feedback useful? Author's rating
by freespirited39 on 15/04/2008
do you think it is difficult to get a child with special educational needs,assessed,statemented,correctly placed in the right educational setting,funded and helped, or do the local authorities try to ignore their needs,take advantage of parents anxiety and ignorance of the system . have you had too fight an educational tribunal to get a childs needs met, are you paying for a private special needs school. opinions very welcome. thankyou.

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by mummoyoftwo on 17/06/2008
I feel from personal experience that a lack of understanding of individual children's needs is often the main problem. Schools are mainly as flexible as they can be and offer the support they can but funding isn't always there. The powers that be that make the decisions on statements and funding don't seem to want to listen to parents/carers and schools and they never seem to see the child as an individual, but often compare them to generic descriptions of conditions such as dyslexia or autism. Frustrating is not the word!

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by jenikins on 22/04/2008
I don't have a child with special needs, but i have worked with some. I found that many are given a nice neat little lable that puts them in a "box", but what a lot do not realise is that each individual, with the same lable, is precisley that- different. Some parents do not know how to cope, and are not always given the right help and advice when it comes to education. But i have seen some special needs people go on to get a job, have their own place, start a family and, have a life. Collage was not always the best option for some that i met; going to a specialist center was of greater value to them. I think there ought to be more time spent on assessing an individuals needs so the right type of education can be provided.

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by lisajb57 on 17/04/2008
I don't believe that the system is truly set up to help special needs children and their families and its due to underfunding. Unfortunately as they are a smaller percentage of the population it is easy to sweep them under the carpet. I cannot begin to imagine what it would be like to have a special needs child and have huge admiration to those who do as I don't think I could be strong enough to deal with.

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by cliver on 16/04/2008
I sometimes have children with special needs in my classes. Usually (often) it is some sort of attention defecit disorder, others include 'learning difficulties' and currently I work with an Aspergers sufferer. Some have been assessed, staemented, etc. some not. I believe that it can be very difficult for this to be done. I am lucky that I teach (cookery) to small groups (usually six to eight) in a 'realistic working environment' - NVQ 1 + 2, the sessions are mainly practical, with some theory. I have never had any problems (even with the violent teenagers, although there have only been a couple), and in most cases they have thrived in this environment. For example my 'Aspergers student' is ahead of her class, and is still going to attend even though she is not attending regular school (at the moment) because of difficulties she is having. I think that it goes to prove that you can get results with the care and attention and time that you can give to 'special needs (I hate that term!) children when in small groups of mixed ability peers. The children also benefit through gaining confidence, as well as achieving their certificates.

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i have several choices, one by Nickleback which makes a lump in my		is this feedback useful? Author's rating
by bplatnauer on 15/04/2008
i have several choices, one by Nickleback which makes a lump in my throat.. ahhh

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by cara_r84 on 15/04/2008
my little boy has special needs and has just started primary 1 in a regular school, he really likes it, he has 1 to 1 help sometimes, not as often as he needs really as he has still to be diagnosed. he gets physiotherapy in the school once a day for half an hour, they have trained a member of staff to provide this and he is subject to ongoing assessments with the educational psychologist the teacher and a support for learning teacher. In my opinion it depends on the specific need of a child but as much as possible I want to keep my son in a so called 'normal' school as he needs to learn to conform to certain types of behaviours and learn to interact with other children.

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by blackpig on 15/04/2008
Because so many of the changes made in recent years with regard to inclusion of children with special needs in mainstream schools have been driven by cost-cutting rather than concern for the well-being of the individual child.

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