I'd be interested to know what anyone else thinks, but I do find it frustrating and a real shame when people whose children blatantly do have special needs in the literal interpretation of the phrase feel that posting on this board might be inappropriate. Special needs are, so far as I'm concerned, special needs of any kind - whether related to health, physical needs, behavioural or general-developmental. And that is why I look to this board for advice and support from understanding parents. Plenty of parents have children with special needs in several or all of those categories in any event, and it really would be tiresome to have to post the same message on several different boards to get to speak to everyone you want to.
I will rue the day we ever get separate boards for different categories of special need. (Anyway, the whole argument about dividing special needs up into more specific sub-categories reminds me a bit of the witterings on the Gifted and Talented board by disgruntled mothers who feel that there are too many merely clever children's parents posting on there, so the board really ought to be renamed, or the offending parents chased off with their tails between their legs - albeit that the reasons behind fearing this is the wrong board to post on are far more noble and sensitive to others' feelings than those behind the G&T comments).