Chantal Bryan OBE

No-one’s story should ever involve a parent needing to remove a child from school in order to teach them to read and write.  If we had to do this for all our children, there would be national uproar. 

Through my experience as a mother who took her son out of special school to teach him to read and write I have seen first hand the need for a greater understanding of the potential to learn in students with complex needs.  I have also experienced the immeasurable difference that being able to read and write makes both for a child or young person who is non-speaking, and also their family and friends around them.  This has driven and motivated my determination to make a difference for those children.