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Now our child's Home-Programme is established, how can Peach continue to offer support?
"...what we are doing for our children is really important. Okay, as parents we take on a responsibility to do what we can for them, but I bet none of us knew just how far that unspoken promise would take us.
Where did we learn to employ people in our home, to juggle finances, mealtimes, phone calls, become militant, read up on psychology and learn its own language, become speech therapists and in my case, learn to write upside down? I don't remember any of those being on the curriculum at school.
And what do I hear from people like me, "...but I'm just an ordinary mum!" Well, let's quietly recognise that no, actually, we're not that ordinary. Through force of circumstance we're actually quite special like the children we look after and because of us, children that otherwise are being 'sighed and head-shaken over' are being given a chance..."
Fiona Rogers Parent - Taken from SPEACH, Xmas 2000
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