Irish Examiner view: A failure to plan pupils’ success

Today is World Autism Awareness Day,  which set a number of objectives when it began in 2007. Foremost was a call to raise awareness around autism. 

Irish families struggling to cope with the impact autism has are all too well aware of the difficulties involved. 

When, 14 years ago, the UN declared that April 2  each year would mark World Autism Awareness Day, it set a number of objectives. Foremost was a call to raise awareness around autism. 

The UN also expressed deep concern at the prevalence and high global rate of autism and the developmental challenges that brings.