(UK) NI: No future for autistic students after age 19
Northern Ireland is drowning in autism. There the official rate is one in every 20 students, one in every 12 boys. It’s to be expected that schools would be struggling to provide for all these disabled students, and they are.
The future also has to be in question. What’s going to happen to these young people when they age out of school?
The BBC covered th…
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