By posting that you have bought back some special memories for me, before being a stretcher monkey i worked in a residential unit for special needs children mostly with such profound disabilities. We had such fun! there was always a happy atmosphere and there was nothing we wouldnt try with the kids to make their stay/lives happier- regardless of their disability. We had some sad times too, being a semi residential unit and the short life span of some of the kids we had deaths in the unit- usually expected and we would celebrate the life they did have. What has always saddens me is that children with SN get so much interaction/intervention up until 16 or 18 years of age then they are transferred to Adult Services.... and you know how that goes.