Ms Deirdre Archbold:

It is not. My daughter has stood up big time. I brought it up with her home tutor because if there are children on the milder end of the spectrum in school, they will not want to tell somebody they have autism if it is treated as a joke. It is good she is there. She will stand up for somebody else. Like Cara, the siblings will stand up for their brothers and sisters. They probably will not say anything for themselves or ask for anything for themselves, but they love the club. My daughter now volunteers in the club. She is brilliant. She has been missing out because she has camogie the same night, but they come to all the events and we include them all in our events. We run a silent Santy. We had a Hallowe'en party. We do trips down the river, which they find very calming. There is a lovely boat that goes down the river in Athy. However, we have to include the siblings because we were involved in the club and we were sitting outside with the siblings and they were losing out. They were not playing with-----