SN area: possible topic re-jig - please let us know what you think

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello

A while back, a few posters on SN suggested that we might consider closing off some of the less well-used SN topics, to make it easier for newbies and make it more likely that people's threads would be answered.

Having looked at the Google Analytics stats that tell us how well certain boards are used, the following four are pretty busy and we'd be reluctant to close them:

SN Chat
SN Children
SN Education
SN Teens and Young Adults

This leaves SN Support Sessions, SN Recommendations and SN Legal. We could close these to new threads so that the existing ones are still there and can be searched via the archive (and indicate to anyone trying to start a new thread there that they should go back to one of the four topics above).

Does this seem like a good idea? Does it answer users' concerns? All thoughts welcome...

I'm not sure what the benefit would be of having separate forums/topics for different disabilities. There are common aspects of varying disabilities that affect many eg sensory issues, muscle tone, feeding, behaviour etc. Also the battle for statements, support etc are aspects that affect us all. There is an ongoing cerebral palsy support thread on sn children.

I think having stickies for specific conditions would be useful. When I had my son (he has Down's syndrome) I felt that all/most of the treads were for ASD related conditions and I didn't want to trail through loads of pages looking for info. Tbh I rarely post in SN because it's mainly ASD related.

Has a decision been made about this? I've just been looking at the SEN thread in education and it's quite concerning that people who would have got useful help on here have been largely ignored, or indeed have been given misinformation.