Most children go to their
local school.
But a lot of disabled children go away to residential
school.
That means they live at their
school.
David Abbott and Jenny Morris wanted to know why
disabled children go away to residential school.
They talked to disabled children
and their parents to find out what it was like
for them. They found:
Children had
good and bad feelings about being at residential
school.
Children liked
having more friends and having more independence.
Children missed
their home and family.
Children often
went to residential school because parents were
not getting enough help to look afterthem
at home. Sometimes local schools could not give
children all the help they needed.
Parents said
it was a hard decision to let their children go
away to school. They missed them.
