Family secures school place for autistic son

A CAMPAIGN by a Cork family to secure a secondary school place for their autistic boy had a happy ending as he headed off to school for the first time since last June.

Family secures school place for autistic son

Rory Mulcahy, 12, from Douglas, has Asberger’s syndrome, a severe form of autism, and his parents Norma and Frank had been unable to find a suitable school which would take him since he finished primary education at the beginning of the summer.

However, they finally got him a place in a secondary school for children with mild learning disabilities in the Cork city area.

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