Dec 19, 2017, (UK) Leinster Leader: Newbridge pupils seeking school places have to wait until after holidays—FAMILIES OF SEVEN SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS SEEKING ANSWERS HTTP://WWW.LEINSTERLEADER.IE/NEWS/HOME/287868/PUPILS-SEEKING-SCHOOL-HAVE-TO-WAIT-UNTIL-AFTER-HOLIDAYS.HTML
The families of seven children with special needs in Newbridge who have no secondary school place secured for next year will have to wait until January before they get any answers.
“We have to keep the pressure on the government for our children,” said to spokesperson Cecilia Semple, whose 12-year-old daughter Kelly is one of the children affected. …
The seven children are due to finish primary school at Scoil Na Naomh Uilig in June 2018, but to date none of these children have been able to secure an appropriate or suitable place locally.
Five out of the seven children, including her daughter Kelly have ASD — Autistic Spectrum Disorders — leaving them with complex and severe educational needs arising from their diagnosis .
“A local school is an absolute necessity for the children as not only do some have ASD but several have special needs ranging from physical disabilities, to intellectual disabilities.”
Local special school, St Anne’s in the Curragh, is not taking any applications for 2018/19 as it is at full capacity.
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Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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