Danielle Ferrie fears she will have to give up work rather than subject her daughter Charleigh to 'pure hell'
A Lanarkshire mum is embroiled in a row with North Lanarkshire Council after refusing to send her 'autistic' five-year-old daughter to mainstream school after the youngster was turned down for an Additional Support Needs school place.
READ MORE: Clydebank residents left 'trapped' in home after broadband engineers on street 'without warning' “I’ve known since Charleigh was about two years old, my mum noticed things before me,” Danielle admitted. “I was a bit in denial and was like - ‘Don’t say that about my wean!’. But as she got older I could tell.
Charleigh often needs to wear ear defenders and according to Danielle her verbal communication is limited due to echolalia, her speech is repetitive and often has no context. She continued: “Everybody that works with Charleigh on a daily basis, at nursery, and the health visitor, say she wouldn’t cope or progress at a mainstream school. If anything I’d be putting her into pure hell, she wouldn’t cope.
The single-parent was “disgusted” to be told in February this year that Charleigh had been refused a place at Firpark in Motherwell and would need to attend her catchment school, St Thomas’s Primary. After taking advice from Govan Law Centre she made her own placing request but that has now also been refused.“We really shouldn’t have to go through all of this,” she said. “It’s people that have never even met Charleigh who are making these decisions.
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