Autistic children face a struggle, part of which is the need for funding to help them achieve successful schooling.
He sits at the back of the class, obsessed with a pull of string in the worn carpet. The subject does not engage him, nor does the droning lecture emanating from somewhere near the whiteboard. The teacher chides him for not paying attention; when he doesn’t respond, he is sent outside as punishment. But with nothing to occupy him in the corridor, he wanders away, bored, lost in his own world.
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- Topics:
- Education
- Author:
- Danielle Kutchel
- Source:
- The Age