Legal Assistance For Children With Special Educational Needs Article Written By : Education Advocacy Not all the kids are born equal or born normal. Some kids are born with disabilities that make it difficult for them to learn and grow up like normal children. Ailments like Cerebral Palsy, Dyslexia, Asperger's Syndrome, Muscular Dystrophy and many others act like a barrier to any child in learning, either in academics or in other activities. Such kids require extra care as they are born with special educational needs. SEN kids and social stigma Social stigma attached with kids who are born with some kind of physical or mental disability also makes it quite difficult for them to grow up and get educated normally. In their day to day lives, these children face endless challenges and sometimes discrimination also. Many of the regular schools hesitate in admitting SEN kids. They try to exclude or disqualify SEN kids from taking admissions.
Role of SEN Lawyers Under certain circumstances, it becomes essential for the parents of children with SEN requirements to take the help of SEN lawyers in order to safeguard the legal, social and educational interests of their kids. This amount of support varies from person to person and also on his individual circumstances and surroundings.
A qualified special educational needslawyer can help the parents of such children in availing different legal facilities and remedies, provided by the law to them. He can also help in monitoring and evaluating different academic, legal and medical progress reports of their kids.He can also help in reducing the anguish, trouble and stress of parents, associated with having a SEN child.