Primary school teacher Beverley Alderson has nearly 40 years of classroom experience, but even she thinks teaching more children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in mainstream ...

Only one in four parents and just over a third of teachers view the Irish education system as inclusive for autistic pupils, research suggests. The research exposes the disconnect between how parents ...

In my new book, The Politics of Autism, I discuss how special education is failing children with autism; not because we are not trying—we are. We are spending about 2.25 times as much per special ...