Eight new special education classes are to come on stream in Clare primary and post-primary schools in September.
It means there are now 55 special classes in the county’s mainstream schools and marks a 14 percent increase on the provision of these classes year-on-year.
13 of them are in secondary schools in Miltown Malbay, Ennis, Killaloe, Kildysart, Shannon and Kilrush, while the other 42 are located in primary schools across the county.
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The new classes mainly focus on autism and autistic spectrum disorders, and follows a report from Trinity College earlier this year which revealed that Clare has just one special class for nearly 500 pupils in mainstream schools.
