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Article: Search & Respond.(school inclusion; extreme shyness; limb lengthening; vacationing with exceptional children; obsessive-compulsive disorder in autistic adolescents)
- Article from:
- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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From inclusion to specialized school
We are the parents of a 12-year-old son with cerebral palsy and learning disabilities. He uses a power chair, laptop with adapted keyboard, and has a full-time aide in school. He is a funny, resilient child. Our question has to do with inclusion. Our son has been included, with many adaptations, in our town's public school. We have had the usual problems getting the staff to truly understand how to include him. Socially, we are finding he is an "outsider." He's falling way behind his peers in many ways. We have looked at, two schools, both for children with multiple disabilities who may have average or above average learning ...