ABSTRACT
This chapter determines the different perspectives of the three contributors by their contacts with professionals, by society's expectations and by their perceptions of what the education system, in the widest sense, had to offer their children. Each of them has made a distinctive and active contribution to his or her child's school. It is important for professionals to recognize that parents are the primary advocates for members of a family who need to address problems resulting from the presence of a child with severe learning difficulties. An undoubted benefit is that an extended family system provides parents with a wide range of opportunities to learn about bringing up children under the supervision of older and more experienced relatives. Programmes like Doman-Delacato exploit the natural reactions of desperate parents, and create psychological blockages which make balanced attitudes in family life difficult to achieve.
