Autism case should go to Supreme Court

THE O’Cuanacháin High Court judgement is a setback for my middle child, Dara (3) and the few hundred other autistic small children whose educational future could be brighter with the Advanced Behavioural Analysis (ABA) educational model.

The ‘eclectic’ alternative is a piecemeal of over-stretched resource teachers who mainly have no additional training, autonomous primary schools nervous of releasing empty classrooms and frequently distressed autistic children adrift without the one-to-one support that is the norm in the US.

ABA is another innovation from North America that impacts on an autistic childhood in the same way that American IT innovation has impacted on us all in recent years.