Nikos, very glad you had a positive paed.
My work in faith settings has given me a lot of insights into how valuable every single person is, whether they are able to talk or walk or hear or see or anything else. Each is as worthy of respect as the next, for all their differences. Someone once said that of all the people he'd worked with, it was the ones who could not talk who taught him the most valuable things. I think the same is true of almost any situation. Making our children's world a good place for them to be, that's vital. Making sure they're safe, well cared for, not in pain, have the chances of love and security, of knowledge and purpose (in their own way), those are good things indeed.
I remember going to an NCT meeting when son was young, and being tutted at by the other parents whose children were 'just perfect'. I came away with tears in my eyes, not so much for my son's differences, but for their lack of insight and prejudice. Years later, one approached me and apologised. She'd had another child who was very much like my son, and realised just what it must have felt like to have been on the receiving end of their comments and attitudes and exclusion.
He's a fine young man, all 6ft of him now. I'm proud of him. Nothing can change that.