Top teacher warns on mental health time bomb over autism training
To ignore the needs of children with autism risks creating a mental health time bomb in Northern Ireland, a leading teacher has warned.
Susan Thompson, vice principal of Hart Memorial Primary in Portadown and President of the Ulster Teachers’ Union, made the claim recently at an autism lobbying event in Stormont.
“Education is the most powerful weapon in changing the world today,” she told an audience made of MLA’s and representatives from the Department of Education, autism charities and the Education Authority.
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