St Killian's Special School in Cork may be added to therapy pilot project

Principal welcomes news that 10 schools will be selected for inclusion but warns: 'All children in special schools need therapeutic intervention'

St Killian's School, Cork, has lacked in-school therapists for four years. Picture: Larry Cummins

Munster’s largest special school, which has been without in-school therapists for four years, could be among 10 schools added to a pilot project next month.

Anne Rabbitte, the minister of state for disability, told the Dáil that 10 schools will be selected at that point for inclusion in an extension of the in-schools therapies pilot project, from which St Killian's in Cork was initially excluded.