College ‘vision’ for intellectually disabled people

MARY Immaculate teacher training College in Limerick is breaking new ground in helping open up third-level education to people with intellectual disabilities.

A pilot project called Certificate in Contemporary Living (CCL) will commence in the coming weeks for students with intellectual disabilities from Limerick, Clare, Cork and Tipperary.

The CCL course was developed by the National Institute for Intellectual Disability at Trinity College and the first group of students from that programme graduated in February 2008.