Wow I love this forum - this has made such interesting reading - very useful to see all your perspectives. Actually one of the queries in my mind was how they could accomodate my son given his issues.

AS for homeschooling - I must admit I have not seriously looked into it so did 'assume' (there is that word again!) that it would be longer than 2.5 hours a day. That I could live with - particularly if we were teaching to his VS strengths. Glad to have that assumption refuted. I think I will investigate a bit more.