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Going away to school
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 after them 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.