Mr. Alan Power:

We surveyed a lot of our members and there are many such parents. One of them states that they were offered a place 26 km from their house. They refused the place and, thankfully, were able to have their son take an additional preschool year. They then got a place locally but in a different school from that of their older son, which meant their autistic son was seven years old starting junior infants, so his classmates are two years younger than him. He is now eight and is only in senior infants. The local school the parents' other son attends has 700 children but has consistently refused to open an autism class.