'I've tried every school in south Cork' - Distraught mother has nowhere to send autistic daughter in September

Compared with other children her age, Sophie McGoldrick is classed as non-verbal but her smile when she attends her pre-school says everything.

The four-year-old is lucky to have secured a place this year with Sonas, a special preschool for children with autism in her home town of Carrigaline, Co Cork just as she was lucky to have lessons with the local Shine autism centre last year.

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