Making room: Helping children with autism integrate into mainstream schools

Where there is a will there is a way to integrate children with autism, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

IN the early noughties a new special need appeared on the radar in Berrings NS, a rural school north of the River Lee, 30 minutes from Cork City.

Liam Walsh was principal for just a year when a distraught mother came to his office during summer holidays in 2004.