Special needs children face mainstreaming

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 7:00p.m.

James Koch with his supervisor

James Koch with his supervisor

Campbell Live has been reporting on school closures, now it is the education of some special needs children is facing the axe.

Ten years ago the government changed the way special needs was funded. The vision was for full mainstreaming, but eight special needs units were saved.

Now the government is forcing their closure by taking the specialist behavioural teachers off the schools.

Anne Tolley says the teachers will be itinerant and reach more children, but the parents of special needs kids say their kids will fail in the mainstream, and how will mainstream cope with them?

Watch Natasha Utting’s report

To learn more about what's happening to these special classrooms go to this Wiki: http://nzparentsfordedicatedrtlbs.wikispaces.com/

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