‘This is the best environment for Seán’

WHILE his parents await an appeal in the Supreme Court, Seán Ó Cuanacháin is continuing to thrive at his specialist autism school in Co Wicklow.

Although the State was found not to have failed him in refusing to fund his education at the Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) pre-school at St Catherine’s Services at Barnacoyle in Co Wicklow, it continues to provide part-funding for the 30 autistic children who are being taught there. The amount is equivalent to what it would provide for the type of education it is willing to offer them.

But Cian and Yvonne Ó Cuanacháin, along with the other parents, must still provide the remaining cost, which runs to hundreds of thousands of euro each year.