A study by the Institute of Education found that, by age three, children with disabilities and special educational needs (SEN) were more likely than non-disabled children to have difficulties with peers, emotional problems and hyperactivity.
Researchers said that, “worryingly”, issues were exacerbated during the early school years, with behaviour problems of disabled children becoming more acute between the ages of three and seven, compared to their non-disabled counterparts.
“Many disabled children find it increasingly difficult to engage with the social world as they pass from toddlers to the mid-primary school age,” said Lucinda Platt, one of the report's authors and professor of social policy and sociology at the London School of Economics.
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