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Anyone know about special needs provision in France?

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saintmaybe · 06/05/2007 14:00

I've an English friend living in the South of France. Her ds is 7, and is not very verbal at all, pretty challenging behaviour, they say not asd but superficially is very like a lot of the children in my ds's asd mld class.

He did odd days in the village school for a term or so; disasterous. She was told in writing that there would be a place in a sn scool this year, but has now been told that the place isn't there, and won't be for the foreseeable future because the school is full of s who have stayed there because there is literally nowhere else for them to go.

So her son has no schooling at all, nothing else is being offered to them.

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of the system there, or know about any support groups, or anything. I don't know what to suggest to her.

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saintmaybe · 06/05/2007 18:59

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Othersideofthechannel · 07/05/2007 12:40

Hello
Read your post yesterday but didn't reply because I don't know much about this at all but seeing as you bumped...
This doesn't surprise me because from what I have heard/read it is really poor.
But the law says 7 yr olds have to go to school. Is it the village school that refused him or did she take him out because it wasn't suitable?

Anna8888 · 07/05/2007 17:00

I live in Paris and have a French cousin-by-marriage with SN who had a pretty disastrous school career, despite a devoted family that did a lot to get her to the right schools. Your friend should go to the Mairie and find out who is responsible for her child, and work from there.

ggglimpopo · 07/05/2007 17:10

Or ring social services and make an appointment to see them and to get him assessed - but yes, start with Marie. Where is her nearest big town as they will have education dep there?

saintmaybe · 07/05/2007 17:28

Thanks everyone. Not sure precisely how he came out of the village school, otherside; I think it was kind of a joint decision as he was getting nothing out of it, and was also being pretty challenging, eg lots of smearing. Interesting that the law says 7 years old need to be in school.

I'll pass the info on, and see if she's spoken directly to the mairie, thanks anna and ggg.

I know she's pretty laid-back, and he is very happy being at home, so I don't know if she'll be up for doing a big fight right now, but I thought it'd be useful to hear anyone else's experience for the future.

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