Over 10 per cent of children in Europe suffer from "dys-" conditions, i.e. dysphasia, dyspraxia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, or from attention deficit disorders: in a written statement signed by over 400 MEPs, the EU Assembly, gathered in Brussels for its plenary session, asks that such pathologies should be recognised as disabilities so as to stop "any form of discrimination" against these children, "prematurely disabled" in their communication and relations. Parliament calls the Commission and Council to "develop a Charter" of "dys- children" and to "promote the best practices for accessibility to information, early discovery" of these disorders and systematic diagnosis, as well as "caretaking". "Only by taking care of them early, intensively and cross-disciplinarily, in appropriate facilities in a normal school with the right support or in a specialist facility , will prevent these children being discriminated against". Finally, Parliament asks for a strengthening of research into such conditions, also in the Seventh Research Framework Program.
