Emma and Kenny contacting numerous ballet schools to ask for accommodations for their daughter, but they say 12 schools turned her down because of Emelie-Rose's additional needs.
A Scots girl turned down from ballet schools because of her autism has finally achieved her dream to be a ballerina - and also inspired a class for kids like her. Little Emilie-Rose Tricker, five, is non-verbal but began to say "ballet class" after seeing an episode of Teletubbies featuring the dance.
Emma said: "Emilie-Rose loves the Teletubbies, and her favourite episode shows them taking a ballet class. She kept going back and repeatedly watching it over and over again, and she taught herself how to say 'ballet class'. "There were tears shed, because we just wanted our wee girl to be able to be included in something she wanted to do."
"We knew this dance class was needed - we knew lots of other parents looking for classes, but there was no one willing to accept these children. After talking to Tracy, within a week, a class was running on Tuesday nights. It now runs on Saturdays as well because it's so popular. "You get terrible stares, and when people hear the words 'autism' or 'meltdown,' they think the worst. I know that these classes mean the world to our family, because we'd be so isolated within the community without them."
"That night, she came along. Very quickly, we realised that the class wasn't going to be suitable for her, so we spoke to Emma, and within the next week, we had set up a class that was suitable for any children within the community with ASN. Within a week, we had two fully booked classes
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