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'Shouting into a black hole': Chronic delays to autism services failing children

Families left in limbo as hundreds of vacancies in HSE teams impact capacity to provide autism support. ....

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Pitting parents against each other is a crude bully tactic

Someone asked me last weekend if my daughter was looking forward to going back to school as part of the partial reopening for children with special needs. No, I told them, we haven t breathed a word of it to her, and we wouldn t be until we were heading out the door to bring her there. Or, perhaps, at the school gate. Or, just to be on the safe side, actually in the classroom.
It s hard to know how to respond in these situations, as all parents of a child with special needs will know.
Someone comes at you with an upbeat isn t it great? and you immediately slap it down with the response that you ll believe it when you see it. All too easily, you can seem negative and churlish. Or, worse again, ungrateful. Or, worst of all, impossible to please. ....

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'Our children are suffering': Parents of children with special needs tell government and unions to 'sort it out'

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Our children are suffering : Parents of children with special needs tell government and unions to sort it out
Unions have said teachers’ concerns about their safety have not been eased by health officials.
By Michelle Hennessy
Tuesday 19 Jan 2021, 12:52 PM
Jan 19th 2021, 12:52 PM
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PARENTS OF CHILDREN with special needs have called for clarity on when their children will return to school as unions express concern about the safety of teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs).
Special education classes are due to return to schools on Thursday, but unions have said health officials have not adequately assured their members that it is safe to do so. ....

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