That's great that in your area they do that. Problem is, it isn't the same everywhere. My mother works with children with autism/ADHD/behavioural and learning disorders etc. She has kids referred to her by the bucketload by teachers who should have been diagnosed years ago as things are so obvious, yet they aren't - people just don't know what to look for. They think they're just naughty or slow. Kids start school these days at five years old not even knowing how to spell their own name or what the basic colours are or how to count to ten - you expect parents with kids like that to be able to tell something's not right? Or teachers to pick it up when they're having to teach them things parents should be teaching them years earlier? Things aren't as black and white as they were even ten years ago; as such, things such as behavioural, developmental and learning disorders don't get picked up as easily as they perhaps should be. It all gets very confused. You're right, there are no excuses, but unfortunately that doesn't change the fact that it happens.
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19 Mar 2008, 6:20 pm
