Marina Giblin

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443 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Jun

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Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna · Alive and Kicking Full Episode 28/6/26 · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

And that happened for us for a very short period of time.

She went to the mainstream school at the end of the street.

We used to walk her to school.

I just loved that.

But it didn't last long.

And we met our neighbours in the area and they're still lifelong friends.

Elsie made friends.

Um but then the support just wasn't there.

And I can't blame the school.

At the time I did because it was naive.

But you know, having a support for Elsie just to kind of babysitter in class isn't enough.

They needed to bring the occupational therapist, the speech therapist, they needed um the teachers to be fully trained, um, you know, to integrate somebody that has

different challenges in the classroom, in a large classroom of like twenty six people.

They need an in individual education plan, which isn't enforceable under the Epson Act because it hasn't been you know, it hasn't been ratified.

They needed a you know, a special statement of educational assessment to show what she needed to be able to be part of a mainstream, which the word mainstream I hate as well.

Classroom?

And none of those were there for her.

So she got to she went in as a frail little five or six year old in a walker.

And um by the time she got to third class she was a big girl and they just

You know, behaviour her behavior is her means of communication.

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