| Teachers in Special Schools work very hard with | | | | does not cause these kids to be treated differently. It |
| Children with Special Needs Disabilities. They work to | | | | also does not force them to attend Specialised |
| ensure a sound understanding is achieved with | | | | Education. |
| situations many take for granted. While children in | | | | 3. Social Interaction becomes a permanent part of the |
| mainstream schools are learning the ABC's, kids in | | | | Child's Education and not a "Special Event" or |
| Special needs facilities are learning to dress | | | | excursion. Removing a child from society to teach |
| themselves, learn to communicate through alternative | | | | them social skills makes about as much sense as |
| channels, basic life skills, toileting and the like. Although | | | | taking the paper OUT of the printer to print a |
| Special needs children receive the specialised support | | | | document. |
| they require there are several powerful reasons these | | | | 4. Not only do Special needs kids learn about the real |
| Special Needs services to be provided in a | | | | world, Mainstream Students also learn about the world |
| mainstream setting. | | | | of a special needs child. Mainstream kids should be |
| 5 Reasons to Enrol Special Needs Children in | | | | given the opportunity to learn a non-spoken language |
| Mainstream Schools with full time support: | | | | such as Makaton. It not only allows communication with |
| 1. Mainstream Students learn to accept the Child behind | | | | those who can not speak it is also a powerful |
| the disability. While ever kids are made to feel different | | | | communication language for people in noisy work |
| or "removed" from society there will always be issues | | | | environments. |
| relating to acceptance. Students with disabilities need | | | | 5. Specialised services become more readily available |
| to learn, fail and succeed like any other mainstream | | | | to other students in Mainstream schools. There will |
| student. | | | | always be students with difficulties in all levels of |
| 2. Disabled Children develop a sense of acceptance. | | | | school. Some students with mild Autism, Cerebral |
| Removing Special Needs Kids from a mainstream | | | | Palsy or ADHD. When students with more severe |
| setting for permanent education in purpose built | | | | disabilities are educated at mainstream schools, the |
| facilities does, by default, give them a sense of not | | | | services for the less severe disabilities are available on |
| only being different but forced to feel unaccepted by | | | | hand rather than by appointment. |
| society. Kids from All walks of life are different. Some | | | | Society needs to move through generations of change |
| are Short, Some are black, some have red hair and | | | | and acceptance before Special Needs Kids and adults |
| freckles some are obese. All of these differences | | | | will be given some form of belonging to the real world. |