In an effort to bring real change to the delivery of special education in Ontario I brought two motions to the Special Education Advisory Committee on Monday night. In one motion, we are asking TDSB Director Chris Spence to ask the Minister of Education and other school boards to support a Special Enquiry into the funding and delivery of special education programs in Ontario. There certainly is a long way to go. The second motion asks the TDSB to hire a special education parent facilitator to help families navigate the complex programs and options in special education. These motions will come before the Board of Trustees at our June, 2010 meeting.
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Would love to talk to you abotu my experience about this. Although I no longer live in Ontario I could not believe the difficulties we had getting our child the educationt hey needed. Nor the difficulties of countless others.
However we were fortunate as we know how to navigate the system (which is one of the best keep secrets)and didn't have any language or cultural barriers. Those barriers might have made a difficult situation seem almost impossible.
Lori Pearce
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