An engaging and page-turning read, My Child's Different will appeal to a wide readership and should be a required text for anyone working with children with SEN or in their local authority's department of education. And for those readers who are parents of children with SEN, the light at the end of the tunnel shines through in this book - offering hope, encouragement and plenty of sympathetic, wise and useful advice from a parent (and parenting expert) who, having experienced the dark days of despair and worry herself, knows what it feels like to be pushed around by officialdom just because their child does not -˜fit in', yet still, rightly, strives for the very best for that child.
The whole Halligan family should be thanked for their honesty and openness in writing My Child's Different, and I think this book will do a great deal of good.