Jean Salt, president of the National Association for Special Educational Needs, said the proposal would make it easier for specialist schools to engage in outreach activities.
Brian Lamb, director of communications at the RNID and a member of the ministerial working group on special schools, said: "Over time it will allow more children to be taught in the mainstream."
He said teachers in specialist schools had a plenty of skills that could benefit their mainstream colleagues. "The problem a lot of specialist schools have is they don't have any money to release their expertise into the mainstream - they get their money from fees and they don't have spare capacity. This will allow their expertise to be pushed into the mainstream," Lamb said.
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