ABSTRACT
When a child has special educational needs or a disability, it is not only the child who is affected. To a greater or lesser extent all the family will feel the impact of the child's disability: parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, even uncles, aunts and cousins. By the time a child starts school, the family has had four or five years of anxiety, challenges, and in many cases, grieving. Each family will respond to and cope with those experiences in different ways; some will be very angry; others may appear less concerned and get on with the job of raising their child, but that anxiety will still be there.
