The Department of Education should examine ways of broadening the concept of third level education to include young people with a mental handicap, the National Association for the Mentally Handicapped of Ireland has said. Pilot projects which provided access for people with handicaps to courses in UCD and TCD showed what could be done, it added.
Plea for mental handicap students
The Department of Education should examine ways of broadening the concept of third level education to include young people with…
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