Extra help for children with needs in Wales

[vetran]

Surely Special is the right term though? If you think of it as a synonym for particular or distinctive.

Disabled children all have needs that are special to them as each has subtle nuances that require individual attention.

If you say the needs are Additional, then you're implying that each child gets the same enhanced help irrespective of their needs.

I think they are relabelling again to attempt to stop discrimination, in the same way as they changed spastic, mongoloid, slow, and for the total feckwits on here cretin. However it is just dressing up the situation. Problem is people will now call such children additional, addys, needs or similar not 'special'. Just as kids called people joeys and spazzers when we were kids.

They are also widening the catchment to include kids who may be intelligent or not suffering disabilities but have a difficulty with some area. My Daughter has handwriting that a hospital consultant would be proud of (as do I) she is getting some additional help to correct it as some of her friends who are having extra maths or spelling.

I suspect they believe if they normalise being different all the kids will treat each other with love & respect! They may be partly right but I doubt they realise how unpleasant people can be to each other. They need to visit sickipedia.

[vetran]

And not called pizza.

padell ddwfn

[vetran]

differently mentally underendowed.

Maybe you can get a card made up with that so people know when they meet you?

[d000hg]

Maybe you can get a card made up with that so people know when they meet you?

This crush you have on me is a little creepy.

If we ever meet up I'll buy you an "I'm with stupid" T-shirt, hows that?

[BrilloPad]

you will not even get the box.
Welsh govt proposed a M4 relief road near Newport in 1991 to ease congestion on M4 .
After endless meetings for 30 years , the plan was scrapped in 2019 ,because in 30 years cost had become too high.

Its a regular occurence. When buildings become derelict, the council still put limits on what developers can do. So when repair work starts the buildings collapse.

[vetran]

This crush you have on me is a little creepy.

If we ever meet up I'll buy you an "I'm with stupid" T-shirt, hows that?

oh dear you think I like you, I have no idea how anyone with a normal mind could have got that idea.

[d000hg]

oh dear you think I like you, I have no idea how anyone with a normal mind could have got that idea.

You follow me around from thread to thread, barging in to insult me for no reason. It's like a boy pulling a girl's pig-tails. I'm not interested thanks.

[_V_]

Which reminds me. Where is sasguru?

Based on what he posted, checking his property portfolio, his stock portfolio whilst sipping Maderia wine on the patio of his retirement villa.

[Gibbon]

I think they are relabelling again to attempt to stop discrimination, in the same way as they changed spastic, mongoloid, slow, and for the total feckwits on here cretin. However it is just dressing up the situation. Problem is people will now call such children additional, addys, needs or similar not 'special'. Just as kids called people joeys and spazzers when we were kids.

Reminds of the RAF calling Falkland Islanders Bennys after the Crossroads character, came from on high we were to stop calling them that. So they became known as Stills, on of the Orifices asked why " cos they're still Bennys sir".

Also my mate was strapping a crew into a phantom F4 on a live scramble and asked them if he could have their eggs if they didn't come back. They somehow lost their humour that day!

[SimonMac]

I have 2 disabled children. Just got a letter from the school(in Welsh and English as they have so much money to waste). To help children with needs the term SEN(Special Educational Needs) is no longer allowed. Now we must use ALN. Additional Learning Needs.

I spent a small fortune, and Mrs-BP and I spent years of stress, fighting for proper schooling . And they waste their money on this.

Will the English please come and invade and save us from the total shower of Welsh morons(all from the South I note).

You may think it is a waste, but inclusive language is very important.

Special needs has a very negative connotation and history of what the phrase means, how many times has it been used on these very forums in a derogatory way.

ALN just means that, it can be the dyslexic kid who needs a little extra time to read a question for an exam through to the other end of the scale with complex needs like MF's kid.


"I have two disabled children" and "I spent a small fortune"

No you have two children with disabilities, which they are not defined by. I think it is very telling that your post is self referring and makes you come across as an arsehole.