Special Needs Education Reviews

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Right before I start with this I'm going to give you a bit of information about my son Michael, as this review is based on our experiences of the governments policy of insisting on the inclusion of special kids in mainstream. Michael is now nearly seven and has a condition called Worster-Drought Syndrome, which is very complex and ...

The government says that children with special needs should be educated within mainstream schools. Many of these kids are disruptive in the classroom and have very specific behaviour problems. This has an effect on the other children in the class. Does inclusion work? Is this fair? My eldest is in year 11 and ...

Today was the day I saw my youngest son attend his new school for the first time. For those of you who are unfamiliar with myself and my family, I have an Autistic son aged 11,called Michael. He was diagnosed at the age of 8 after a long battle to get his difficulties,behavior and disabilities recognized. The years since he first ...

At the age of 17 months i knew there was something wrong, a mother does. I had a boy who couldn't talk, all he could do was grunt and point for things he wanted. Most children by that age are starting to say words, but not mine. I went to the doctors and the health vistors a number of times but i was always being told ...

Imagine you are a child sitting in your classroom along with your classmates, and your teacher has set you some simple maths tasks, as simple as adding up for instance. You got the idea of how to do it the other day, but for some reason today, your mind can't seem to make any sense of it at all, you can't remember the formula for lining ...

I have two 'special' children, but then aren't they all? I try very hard to make sure my kids feel 'normal' but boy do I hate that word. My youngest child has always had 'Special Needs'. Been hyperactive since the day he was born, and now finally diagnosed with ADHD, but a happier little lad (most of the ...

I am a fully qualified teacher working in a wonderful Special School. I get fed up with hearing doom and gloom stories about Special Needs and education and so I want to take this opportunity to offer parents some much needed reassurance. I think it is so difficult for any parent to make the choice of sending their child to a Special ...

My son was diagnosed with ADHD at 5 years old and Asperger's Syndrome at 6. I think because of his fairly early diagnosis, the school has been rather accommodating and equipped to deal with my son's challenges. I, along with several other school staff members, meet about three times during the year to discuss my son's ...

Our son has special needs (ADHD / Asperger syndrome / Seizures and although he has tremendous social and behavioural difficulties because of these conditions, he has an IQ of 148 at last testing. Which means he is REALLY intelligent. However, despite this intelligence he has been to 5 different schools so far of which we actually took him ...

HOW THE SYSTEM FAILS My son Nicki-leigh is nearly seven now and has learning difficulties. The school nicki’s at , at the moment is quite a good school . Ever since nursery nicki has had problems with writing and reading, general Learning at school. I’ve had a right struggle from nicki starting ...

Let me start by telling you that I work with 'special needs' children and have done for seven years.I have worked in both mainstream schools and specialist units/centres. I have done extensive training, go on regular intensive courses at our teacher-training centre, have had one-to-one training with the 'experts' and child ...

Don't bother going to sixth form. Collage is the way to go. At sixth form you are still treated as a child and you still have to register morning and afternoon. Don't do this at collage you are treated like an adult you register the lessons not the whole day. I go to great Barr Sixth form and its so like school i can't tell i have ...

Firstly I would like to say how wonderful these children are. I along with some friends and a local landlady who agreed to let us use her pub and gave her support recently had a charity night in aid of a local school for children with learning and other problems. The event went well where everyone enjoyed themselves and never once forgot who we ...