(Ireland) Due to "high volume of children waiting for assessment of need," diagnosis no longer required
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Jan 9, 2026, Irish Times: Assessment of Need proposal could be ‘biggest change in special education in 25 years’
Video:“. . . Because there is such a high volume of children waiting for an assessment of need at the moment, they are going to remove the necessity to have a diagnosis in order to access a special school.
Without a doubt, in the last 25 years, this is the biggest change in special ed. . . .
And the fact that is it not being spoken of more, the fact that we haven’t had any direction from the Department of Education or that anybody in the Minister’s office has not come out and mentioned this at all, is quite extraordinary. . . .
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