“My daughter will not go to school at the beginning of the school year. We have tried everything, but we remain on an endless waiting list. Mona Jafarian is a mother of two little girls. Her 5-year-old daughter has an autism spectrum disorder. He is one of the “lucky ones” who managed to get a place in an adapted kindergarten when he was very young. Today he is too big, he has to enter elementary school. Problem: there is no room, waiting lists sometimes stretch for several years.
In France, 410,000 children with disabilities are educated in regular schools and 67,000 in specialized schools, according to the Ministry of National Education. The Unapei Association, which brings together players with cognitive, intellectual and multiple disabilities, condemns the partial or even non-existent school. During the 2021-2022 school year, a third of the 8,000 children identified by the association received less than 6 hours of lessons per week, and 18% received none…
Source: Le Figaro
