[LeslieW]

I just finished 2 years in Japan teaching 3-5 year olds. I had up to 15 on any given day. I only had one special needs child. He was on his way to being legally blind. I have never dealt with that before and he was so far behind the rest of the kids. You have even more and my guess is various disabilities. My best advice is this. Find a day to get on line, email the organizations that deal with those disabilities. I left emails all over Canada and the US looking for any suggestions on how to fit them into the class and enjoy it. You cant deal with teaching them if you dont have all the info on the disability and how one would go about teaching them.

Its not easy but hopefully you will hit the jackpot. The more info you have the easier it may be to teach them. I hope you have an assistant as that seems like a handful for one teacher to deal with. Perhaps there are forums for parents of those disabilities. Parents do know their children best and may have ideas of how to reach the child.