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>We are parents of a severely dyslexic 10 year old >child. From reception we have had to fight for any >support for our child. > >It is a battle we lost. Education Authorities refuse >to put funding in place to help children with special >needs. Consequently 1 in 5 children start secondary >school unable to read or write properly and 1 in 5 >boys aged 14 have the reading skills of a 7 year old*. > >The government refuses to deal with this national >scandal properly despite adult illiteracy costing the >UK tax payer over £2 billion per year **. In a class >of 30 children 6 will have special needs. All children >suffer under the present system. > >We want the government to have a Special Educational >Needs system which is fit for purpose. Please help by >signing the petition we have started and by passing it >on to at least five people. > >CLICK ON THIS LINK <a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FitForPurposeSEN/">htt >p://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FitForPurposeSEN/</a> > >Many thanks, >Tom and Adriana > >*information taken from Xtraordinary People website >** KPMG Foundation report "The long term costs of >literacy difficulties" dated December 2006.

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