Including All our Children in Mainstream Schools and Communities

Summary

For the parents of many preschool children with significant special educational needs, choice of school represents a crucial crossroads for their child and for themselves. The path they choose (and many parents do not feel they have a real or realistic choice) will have significant and lifelong consequences.

This paper represents our attempts to place within an ‘inclusive’ context the struggles and difficulties faced by many parents as they try to make sense of often conflicting professional advice and pressures. In order to remain a major resource for their child, parents also need their own personal and community support networks.

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Notes on contributors

Gerv Leyden

Gery Leyden is Associate Tutor and educational psychologist for Nottinghamshire EPS.‐

Andy Miller

Andy Miller is Course Director of the Training).Cours,e for,. Educational .Psychologists at the University of Nottingham, Postgraduate School, Department of. ‘Psychology, University Park, Nottingham,:NG7 2RD.