Does CHC have a special needs program or consultant? If not, how will CHC materials work with my special needs child?
One of CHC’s writers and her husband have reared children and foster children with special needs. The writer relates some of her experiences with her special needs children [who attended programs in public school] and with the special needs ‘consultation’ received there: ‘Our experience has been with specialists who worked directly, on a day-to-day basis, with our children. In a nutshell, even with daily contact, it was not uncommon for the needs of the children to be misdiagnosed, misunderstood, with teaching that ‘mis’-sed the mark for the first several months of, if not all, the school year. In a nutshell, no one outside your family knows your child’s abilities, strengths and weaknesses better than you do. If specialists who work with children daily can miss the mark, how much more so some one who has not even met the child? Further, it has been our experience that special needs children tend to progress far better at home than in public school special ed programs. [The point being
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