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maleficent · 01-03-2007, 05:20 AM

There's a friend of my family who has a daughter who's now 19 years old... The child has Cerebral Palsy...When she was 2ish - the parents were told their best bet for any kind of life for this child would be to institutionalize her where she might learn to walk and perhaps talk.

The parents passed on that advice and with a lot of patience the girl learned to walk and to communicate - sometimes verbally, sometmes with sign language. When she reached school age, she was mainstreamed, with some special classes in her school day - and the spending time with other children who didn't have her disabilities was good for her -and I also believe it was good for he other children as it taught them some patience and that not everyone was like them.

As this child got older, and classes got harder, she was moved to special ed classes only because it was too frustrating for her to deal with some harder math classes...

At a young age, I think it's a benefit to disabled children to be with non-disabld children - and i think the non-disabled also get a benefit - as they get older, i'm not sure the same is true..

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maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	There's a friend of my family who has a daughter who's now 19 years old... The child has Cerebral Palsy...When she was 2ish - the parents were told their best bet for any kind of life for this child would be to institutionalize her where she might learn to walk and perhaps talk. The parents passed on that advice and with a lot of patience the girl learned to walk and to communicate - sometimes verbally, sometmes with sign language. When she reached school age, she was mainstreamed, with some special classes in her school day - and the spending time with other children who didn't have her disabilities was good for her -and I also believe it was good for he other children as it taught them some patience and that not everyone was like them. As this child got older, and classes got harder, she was moved to special ed classes only because it was too frustrating for her to deal with some harder math classes... At a young age, I think it's a benefit to disabled children to be with non-disabld children - and i think the non-disabled also get a benefit - as they get older, i'm not sure the same is true.. __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.