how do you explain to your dcs that they might not go to the same school?

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DD 6 goes to a regular local school - she loves it and on Thurs/Fri when I am at home with ds 3 we do drop offs and pick ups together Ds adores his big sister and recently she has been talking to him alot about when he is 5 he will be going to the school. He gets all excited and loves running around with her in the playground...the thing is ds has severe speech delay and it is becoming more and more apparent that he will struggle at the school. There is another school - in the opposite direction that has speech therapists on site and ds' SLT has mentioned that ds needs would be well met there. I feel like I need to talk to dd about it.

Maybe send both of them to the other school?

Is it a S&L unit attached to a MS school?

Yes, we had a similar experience. Ds1 (nt) goes to mainstream locally and ds2 (asd/adhd) attends a specialst speech and language unit further afield. We talked about ds2 needing to go to a school that would help with his 'tricky words'. The most important thing I found was bringing ds1 to ds2's school to show him around,it made it 'real' and they have always just accepted that they go to different schools x

Thanks for replies

Indigo - I hadn't really thought of both of them going to same school. It is a mainstream sch with a speech unit attached. The logistics will be a nightmare - but dd loves her school and is very settled there....
Helens - that sounds like a very good way of explaining language difficulties