Please come talk to MNHQ about Special Needs topics: better with fewer of them or not?

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

We're looking into streamlining/reorganising our Topics list to make it easier for people to find the best topic for their thread, and to make it easier for everyone to find their way around Talk.

And, following on from some of the points raised on this Site stuff thread, we wanted to ask you folks about the range of SN Topics in Talk.

Currently, as you know, we have...
Parents with disabilities
Special needs support sessions
Special needs: children
Special needs: education
Special needs: legal/financial
Special needs: recommendations
Special needs: teens and pre-teens

Do you think it might be a good idea to lose some of these, given that some of them (legal, education, recommendations, in particular) are quite underused?

Would it be better to have fewer topics, so that every OP was more likely to get replies to their threads?

Or do you think the balance of Topics is fine just as it is?

Please do let us know...

2shoes Right behind you

Just a very small point some of us old fogies have DC's who are not really "young adults" hope this does not exclude us!

Well.if the new middle age is around 55....

2old2beamum good point, but they aren't old adults lol

OK you cocky lot-you know what I mean you little tinkers. Just a thought will parents with pending dementia be allowed to join you. Whey hey here I come.
PS Guess who has fathomed out how to do emoticons despite 2 glasses of

2old2beamum the new room will have a couch in the corner just for old people like us

2shoes you flatter me however I would be honoured to share the aforementioned couch but we would probably fall off it laughing. LO's in respite so off to catch early Stannah stair lift upstairs

Just noticed this thread is still running.

At this rate the problem will resolve itself as our kids will all be SEN-Pensioners before anything changes.

lol

and I will not be here to hand out excellent advice