Does anyone have a child who attended a special school and made it to uni? What do they do now? Does anyone have a child currently at a special school who is aiming at uni? I just want to know if it happens. My DS is still little, is autistic and has various specific learning difficulties but he is in a special school. I don’t know if uni would necessarily be the right path for him even if he did get the grades, but it’d be interesting to hear other people’s stories.
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OneInEight · 21/01/2024 09:57
ds1 is an example of this. He spent from mid-way year 5 to year 11 in special schools. Transferred back to mainstream for sixth form college and then onto university (now in his third year of a Physics degree). He has an ASC and had social, emotional, behavioural difficulties in primary. The key was finding a school that could meet both behavioural AND academic needs which was not easy - he ended up in a specialist, independent school for secondary because local, special provision would have given him at most 3 GCSEs which would not be sufficient to get into uni and local mainstream schools were unwilling to offer him a placement on behavioural grounds. A lot of special schools focus on life skills which is great but for ds1 he was academically capable when he was in a supportive environment so we wanted to make sure he had the opportunity to do that as well.
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