Imagine if you will, a pipeline spanning the field of education from reception/kindergarten, right through year twelve. This pipeline is long and broad, and all students are freshly siphoned into the pipeline at the onset of their academic career. Certainly there are a few branches for those who are gifted or those with a propensity for math, science, or one particular subject, but ultimately, the pipeline successfully ends in the same place for all students and they enter the adult world educated and erudite.

Well, in theory anyway. But what happens to those students who deviate from this pipeline? What about the ones who enter the world predisposed to slide down a divergent path and are flushed from the system, either in the middle or at the end, without the requisite skills we expect from everyone else? Why is it that one fact remains constant in education: students with learning differences stray from the path early in their education, and most find it exceptionally difficult to return.