JaneJudge Thank you for your post. Well said indeed.
Nanna8 How deeply hurtful of you to blame parents. The parents of children with Special Needs devote their lives to their children. I know, because I have watched my amazing daughter and son in law over the past twelve years caring for, and bringing out the best in their son who has Special needs and Autism. Years ago a child like my grandson would have died soon after birth. We have modern medicine to thank for his survival. Thanks to the ongoing support of his multidisciplinary team and the unfailing, never ending input by his parents, he is a delightful, happy, high achieving boy. He will always have difficulties and probably never live independently. But thanks mainly to his parents he is who he is today and in main stream school DO NOT BLAME THE PARENTS.