Affluent areas failing to provide schooling for kids with autism

Teacher Graham Manning: “Generally speaking, given the preponderance of classes in Deis schools, that speaks to a class issue, so nobody can argue that point." Picture: Dan Linehan

Children with autism in affluent suburbs of Cork and Dublin are attending classes in disadvantaged areas because non-Deis schools don't want them or fail to cater for them.

Campaigners claim children with autism are forced to travel long distances from their own homes because of a "socio-economic class issue".