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Best thing I ever did for my daughter!
Lioness
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Special needs schools get so much stigma, I was lucky because Megan had had alot of special needs learning support from the age of one, so, I could see what a positive input she was getting, she went to a special needs nursery group weekly at two and was statemented and at three and a half she started at the nursery of a special needs school. My older daughter (now 14) has mild disabilities and has always gone to mainstream school, in infant school nobody noticed her differences but, once she got to the juniors she was bullied and isolated, to the point she is now ashamed of her medical problems and everything has to be hush hush.... Megan on the other hand has NEVER felt different, she is doubly incontinent and wears nappies yet its never an issue, she has literally hundreds of friends, an active social life, learns life skills, does yoga, goes on atrip every week and swimming twice a week, has a gym membership... I could go on and on.... sending her to a special needs school was the best decision I made for her!
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I have read some posts on here that accuse parents that send their children to Special Schools of socially isolating them. That couldn't be further from the truth! My children are 13 and 17, they both have CP and have attended a Special School since they were aged 2. They have had the most fantastic opportunities, including trips overseas and being part of a business enterprise, that I an CERTAIN they would not have had in a mainstream school where they would most cetainly been the "odd ones out", and I know how it works, I was a mainstream Primary Teacher for 12 years! They have a good circle of friends within school who they feel comfortable with, who never comment negatively on differences. I have also made efforts to include them in family and community events out of school so that the wider public become more used to having disabled children in their lives.