A special educational needs tribunal ruled last week that the South Eastern Education and Library Board must pay for an intensive course of home teaching, known as applied behaviour analysis, for seven-year-old Paul Murray, who has autism. This is a first for Northern Ireland.
Angie Lee Foster, head of advice and advocacy at the National Autistic Society, said the case highlighted that Northern Ireland lacked the range of autism-specific provision, such as autism units and autism-specific schools, found in other parts of the UK.
"Applied behaviour analysis has therefore become the choice of many parents as a result of little alternative," she added.
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