[HPforGrownups] Re: Eyesight, Hogwarts' special ed, etc.

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No: HPFGUIDX 12119


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rina Stewart 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Eyesight, Hogwarts' special ed, etc.


  ender wrote:

  <<I have to disagree here.  I think this is oversimplifying.  The sonorous charm works on the voice itself. Most children who are nonverbal due to neurological disabilities have absolutely no problem with their voices, but instead with the parts of their brain that control their ability to use language.  Besides, I'd like to think that if a child has a disability that can be fixed or changed by magic, it would be done in the early years by  trained medical wizards.>>


  >I'd like to think that Hogwarts would have MEPs (I just love that idea, Ender <g>) and appropriate accomodations, rather >than a fix-all. After all, it has been brought up that they don't advocate cosmetic (teeth) fixing unless it's been >directly impacted by a spell, and they don't seem to fix eyesight just on a whim. Maybe things could be done so that a >nonverbal child could direct thoughts for spells?  

  >Rina

  Glad you liked the idea!  Actually, I'm writing a fanfic (who isn't!) and the other day, as i was sitting in a staff meeting at school called to discuss a kid with severe behavior disorders, I decided I had to include a Hogwarts "staffing" scene for the wayward character in my fic.  

  It would be interesting, though, to see how magic would express itself in, say, an autistic child, or a Down's Syndrome child.

  ender



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