Pilot learning programme gets under way!

Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has unveiled a new approach to teaching autistic children in primary schools.

Dame Jennifer said that a special classroom would be set aside and staffed by specially-trained teachers and educational therapy staff. The programme, long advocated by BASE, will be extended if successful.

The pilot will be run at West Pembroke Primary School and around six autistic pupils will be the first to benefit from the trial programme.

Previously, autistic children in public sector schools were in mainstream classes, with support from teaching assistants, who may not have had specialist training in dealing with autism.

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