The Struggle to Find a School for a Child Diagnosed with Autism in Ireland

Conor Coady said the only reason his son Harry doesn’t have a school place is that “he has additional needs”. The five-year-old should be starting school this coming September but has been refused by the seven schools that are suitable in their home county, Waterford. The father told the Irish Mirror: “We don’t have that many schools we can apply to down there and he has been rejected from all of them. The reason my son isn’t starting school in September is because he has additional needs, and it’s not just my son it’s a nationwide issue.

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