When the Department of education is dismantled, we need better education for the special needs kids. We need more access to special therapies in schools. We need the IEP as well to keep the kids safe. We need more support for caregivers as well.
7 Likes
To expand on this, the entire education system needs an overhaul. Education should become more individualized with more opportunity for kids to learn about what they are good at and what interests them to have value in society. More vocational type schools with free access to a 2 year school or trade school after high school.
Special education needs a lot of work as well. As a mom with a son with ASD, he will not do anything he doesn’t want to do and this is especially important for kids like this. He is beyond his years with intelligents and could really benefit from learning about the eco system instead of an hour of how to add numbers when his favorite number since he was 3 is 152.
1 Like
It goes much deeper than that. Every child has a right to a free and appropriate public education. However, in order to access that, many parents of children with special needs pay an exorbitant amount of money to advocates and lawyers as well as specialists who complete testing. It is criminal the way families are treated. Due to the bureaucracy of the system even when services are provided it takes months and sometimes years, whereby putting children even farther behind their peers. I would love to see amendments to existing laws, repeal of some laws and new laws to assist families in receiving appropriate services without spending any money out of pocket in an expedient manner.