But that could be about to change if a council slashing its spending due to ConDem cuts ends funding for experts who help him and about 200 other deaf kids.
Lucas, five, has been seeing a deafness specialist for two hours a week who helps prepare him for classes.
His dad Adam, 32, an engineer, said: “This specialist support is vital in ensuring that Lucas can reach his true potential.”
Stoke-on-Trent City Council, which must cut spending by £35.6million, today faces a High Court battle with disability campaigners who claim the cuts are discriminatory and have been “rushed through”.
Adam and Rebecca Stubbs of Stoke on
Trent with their five year-old son Lucas
They will leave deaf children in Lucas’s area with just three specialist teachers after Thursday, down from eight.
Jo Campion, a director at the National Deaf Children’s Society, said: “We’ve been forced into taking legal action.”
Adam, who lives with Lucas and wife Becky in Bradley, Staffs, added: “We don’t see why Lucas should suffer just because he is deaf. This is not fair.”
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