Gay Mitchell (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 393: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give a positional response to the needs of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [14123/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is most anxious that all children, including children with autistic spectrum disorders, receive an education appropriate to their needs. In this regard the preferred approach to the provision of appropriate education for all children, including children with autism, is through the primary and post-primary school network, whether through placement in mainstream classes, in special classes or in special schools. My Department would also support an eclectic approach in regard to the education of children with autism where a range of teaching methods are available, for example, treatment and education of autistic and related communication handicapped children or TEACH, applied behavioural analysis or ABA, and picture exchange communication system or PECS. I understand that the child in question is currently accessing education provision through placement in an autism specific class in Scoil Chiarán.