Education

First off is that I cannot imagine what it must be like dealing with special needs kids. Second is that we are not beginning to provide them with what they need (and 2.1 is that I haven't a clue what they need).

My older son was a special needs child, but not severely handicapped. He was always different, and had certain deficits, although he did reasonably well in regular classrooms. When he was 18 years old and half way through his senior year of high school I figured out that he had Asperger's (this was in 2001, and Asperger's had only recently become a diagnosable condition), but that is NOTHING like what you are describing.

Thank you for what you do, what you did with this child.