, Hogwarts' special ed, etc.

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 12481

Rina wrote:

"Maybe there's a equivalant school where young wizard kids would 
learn appropriate spells/charms that would help them overcome speech, 
or hearing, or walking disorders.

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?" 

Given the schools' long-standing habit of chucking the speech 
therapists into broom closets, perhaps this is where all 
the "resource" teachers are at Hogwarts.  Granted, it would be a 
magically enhanced broom closet complete with all the materials a 
school SLP would dream of, but quietly hidden away due to never-
ending shortage of space.  All magical SLP's are required to earn 
their SMILE's (Special Mediwizarding In Language Education), a 
stringent program requiriing 12 OWL's, 6 NEWT's and 3 RAT's (Really 
Awful Tests).  All SLP's are bound by the Code of Ethics, which 
clearly states that no Magical fix-it will be used in remediating any 
disorder.

Dumbledore used his wand to write the words to the school song in 
P/SS, so I would consider this to be wizarding Augmentative 
Communication, a very viable alternative to spoken language.
 
Rina also wrote:

"But doesn't this kind of head into the wizards staying separate from 
Muggles because Muggles would want magic solutions to everything?"

I either read this in another book, (or maybe these) or heard it in a 
movie.  Anyway, it sounds very familiar.

Trina (a very non-magical school SLP, who is fortunate to share an 
actual room with the other SLP, but who has administered a test to a 
3 yo in a room full of filing cabinets and a copier with her back up 
against the door.)