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What options do schools provide for special needs?

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Usually many: Parents of children with special needs have been quite successful in the past to get school systems to accomodate those needs: mobility, vision, hearing, disruptive behavior, autism, etc. As budgets are tightening and the economy suffers, these programs are frequently in line to be lessened or eliminated.

Dr Pizzo and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/22/2012

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