Pay Assessment Fees for Special Needs Children

Raising a child with a disability cost more on average and depending on their diagnosis may need care for the rest of their lives. Challenges of Raising a Child with Special Needs and Issues Faced by Special Needs Families Include:

• Accessibility for the Special Needs Child when taking them out of the house, transportation and entry access is very limited
• Empathy and Understanding from Others because they fuss and sometimes can be seen as misbehaving.
• Finding Places to go on Vacation its extremely difficult to find places that accommodates special needs children
• Adapted Clothing and Other Disability Aids are expensive and sometimes must be imported.
• Meeting Other Parents extremely difficult as all parents have challenges transporting their special needs children from one location to the next and if possible, its expensive.
• Communication it’s had to communicate with severely disabled special needs children and most times you must guess their needs and what’s wrong because they are unable to speak.

 A Special Needs Child Parent said to us “You can’t work when you’ve got a child like ours, it’s just not possible. I tried and you always need time off when they’re ill and they’re ill more than normal children, then you’ve got all the appointments as well, but the killer is the holidays, what do you do with them then. If you can find someone to have them then it costs you more because they can have less of them, kids I mean, because of the ratios and it ends up costing you more so that it’s not worth working even if you’d got someone, a boss who’d understand”.

I’m careful with money. I know I don’t waste it. I only buy what we need but they need more than others, more nappies, more clothes, more creams, more things to occupy her because she is stuck in here with me all the time. I have two children and I know it costs more, a lot more and there is nothing you can do. You just must pay it.