To want to know the Something Special disabilities?

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I am interested from a science POV about what makes some children on the show the way they are, but it feels a bit voyeuristic sometimes. Especially because it's often the very disabled children that make me wonder what condition they have and why it manifests that way.

I also wonder whether the shows could help people who have just found out their DC has one of the conditions featured. Without knowing what disabilities are featured in each episode though, it wouldn't be much of a reference point.

Would be interested in views of parents with children that have a disability. I heard on Radio 5 a Mum say she liked people asking about her kids because then they understood them better, but this is always a sensitive area to have any opinion on and I don't know therefore if IABU.

*cakes!

It's not in the slightest bit patronising to children with SN either.

it si one of the best children programmes imo
love the fact that the children on the show are just justins friends, dd loves it as it uses sign language that she knows(and mum tries to copy)
this must be one of the weirdest threads I have seen.
something special is not there to educate about different conditions, just that children with sn are just children.
as for asking people what about their children, I would say mid your own business.
one of my 19 yr old nt sons bug bears is when some twat asks him what is wrong with dd. he hates it and they will get a terse answer, as he says there is nothing wrong with her, she is just dd who is disabled.
(Fanjo hope little Fanjo is better soon)

Thanks Sevenfold :)

winter i hate cartoon network it really is drivel although its fine for a wee while for them to slump in front of i couldnt stand it all day , I rationed childrens tv Dd1 didnt have sky when she was little so it was really just lunchtime and teatime programmes she watched , but when we got sky it was cartoon network ARGHH drove me insane give me cbeebies anyday ,

I can't belive the responses here. I work for a disability charity and one of the big propblems facing newly disable dpeople is the mystique around what causes what and how your body and other people might respond to it.

It is none of your business but it shouldn't be an issue.

I am not sure what point you are making tardis
Genuinly - not in a hostile way.

I am not sure either. Which posts are you responding to Tardi?

Can I please be spectacularly dim & ask what NT stands for?

Neuro typical

It means a child with no special needs

I always say to my children that sometimes, with children with visible SN, that the brain and the body don't work together in the same way for some children but that they must always assume the brain is just as amazing as theirs. Then I think I sound like a twat. I was always frightened, possibly by lack of contact and knowledge, that I would be patronising or not on the level of people with SN.

To my overwhelming shame i have been watching this programme with dd for about 2years now, perhaps longer. SIl was round the other day and i commented what a great programme it was, and how lovely it was to see children with disabilities represented for once.

It was the first time i'd noticed , i am usually doing something else mnetting whilst t.v is on. But i do wonder if i'm really stupid, or just unobservant?.

I quite agree, mrsjay. Fast-paced television shows drive me insane when they are on in the background. How my sister stands it I don't know.

Give me the more sedate and soothing CBeebs any day. Especially "64 Zoo Lane" with its Beatlesque theme song...

aww do they still show 64 zoo lane i did like it , I like those storybook type programmes , MR benn anyone

I LOVE 64 Zoo Lane!

I love 64 zoo lane and Storymakers....We used to imagine with "The Cat" Wordsworth.

Abney and Teal is my current favorite. Very chilled little dippy programme and Abney looks like my daughter.

i really like most of CBeebies..sadly DD shows no interest in it whatsoever

whats the 1 with the robot that spells ? that might be a schools programme though ? i used to watch that with dd1

64, 64, 64 zoo lane

There's one with a hump
and one who can jump
and one who is well . . . a little bit plump.

64 64 64 zoo lane

Some like it hot
and some like it chilly,
and some like it both ways and that's a bit silly.

64, 64, 64 Zoo Lane!

Some are friendly,
some are scary,
but one thing is sure : not one is or-di-na-ry

64, 64, 64 Zoo Lane!

Some are spotty,
some are stripy,
they're prickly and woolly and furry and slimy.
Some are quite big
and some very small,
and the last one's Georgina who's incredibly tall.

64, 64, 64 Zoo Lane!

aww I sing that to DD often

ok now humming 64 zoo lane , with dd2 looking at me like

spider was ace - he's only scary 'cos he's hairy

don't know a robot that spells (although am also usually mnetiing busy doing other stuff when cbeebies is on)

when I'm asked whats 'wrong' with dd I do tend to say 'nothing'. Her medical history and labels are no-one business out and about in the street.
She has lots of non -disabled friends. They dont seem to notice she cannot move or speak and treat her like one of the gang. Its usually the parents tying themselves in awkward knots.