All credit to special teachers, children and heroic parents who turned the tide

KIERAN Kennedy, CEO of Shine, autistic spectrum organisation, says (Letters, March 15) “the present situation is only reinforcing exclusion.

The minister, the Government and the teaching establishment appear to want to ignore the needs of special needs children”.

Exclusion? As a primary teacher and as a special needs (SN) teacher, I have seen a massive increase in the inclusion of special needs children in the classroom since about 2001.