From the NY Jewish Week: "Find A Place For Special-Needs Children" [in day schools]

See this article by Rabbi Allen Selis, father of a boy with autism. It's a pity that the Jewish community has so much difficulty raising adequate funds to provide a decent Jewish education for kids with disabilities. I speak from experience, unfortunately: Our son was refused admission to our local Solomon Schechter (Conservative) Day School.

http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=4290

My newer readers are cordially invited and encouraged to read (at least part of) my series, "On raising a child with disabilities," which starts here: http://onthefringe_jewishblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/park-your-ego-at-door-on-raising-child.html#comments.

I also encourage you to read Z's series, "When Something's Wrong," about raising a child with autism. We wrote our posts pretty much concurrently, and bounced our thoughts off of one another. Her series can be found here: http://www.matzahandmarinara.com/wp/. Being a more technologically-adept blogger, Z has links to the entire series in her sidebar. (I haven't even figured out how to set up a sidebar yet.) While you're there, read her most recent posts--she and her husband are currently going through "special-ed. hell" trying to get their son the help that he needs. They could use a few words of encouragement.