Trainee teachers will be required to undergo mandatory placement in special education under reforms proposed by the minister for education.
All trainee teachers will be required to undergo mandatory placement in special education under reforms proposed by Minister for Education Helen McEntee.in autism prevalence in the past decade has resulted in schools struggling to address the needs of students with special needs .
“We have parents who are taking children out at maybe 11 o’clock from Togher, travelling all the way the other side of Dublin to Dundrum for speech and language therapy, for OT therapy,” she said. “We really need a school-based approach where we have these multi-agencies coming in and we’re all working together – the teachers, the parents and the multi-agency discipline such as speech and language and psychology.”“There are positions there but they’re not filled for various reasons,” she said.
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