Places sought for autistic children after school closure

THE Department of Education has confirmed that eight autistic children whose school was closed down in the summer will have to receive home tuition while places are found for them.

The children had been attending the Achieve ABA school in Donaghmede, north Co Dublin.

However, it closed during the summer after those in charge of the school — which uses the ABA (applied behavioural analysis) method of teaching preferred by some parents of children with autism — that funding was not available to keep it operating.