Almost a million Australian schoolchildren now have a disability – that’s one in four enrolments. Parents, teachers and advocates say education is at crisis point
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Every morning before school, Emerson Cook would ask his mum to check the weather. If it was raining, she knew her then five-year-old would be anxious.
“He was always worried about rain,” says Alicia Cook, Emerson’s mother. “And if the weather forecast was rain, I would be anxious too.