Protest over cut in special needs assistants [IrishTimes]
- Published: 22 June 2011
MORE THAN 100 children, parents, teachers, and special needs assistants took part in a protest outside the Dáil yesterday against cuts in the numbers of special needs assistants.
Students, parents and staff from St Senan’s School in Enniscorthy in Wexford, where a number of children with autism attend, were protesting against the cut of six special needs assistant positions at the school.
Lorraine Dempsey, of the Special Needs Parents Association and area representative for the Wicklow/Wexford area, said the cuts would affect both these children and their classmates.
She said that, while some children are on the lower scale of the spectrum when it comes to behavioural difficulties, they still required assistance.
“The question is how will this impact on the whole class and the teacher trying to teach them,” Ms Dempsey said, adding that there would be further protests as the cuts were announced.
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