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Chapter 13 — Special needs schools and residential services

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In addition to feeling isolated, between 12 and 17 witnesses also described feeling angry, at times having suicidal thoughts and experiencing sleep disturbance. Fifteen (15) witnesses reported that they abused alcohol to the extent that it had a negative effect on their lives.


Footnotes
  1. The terms schools, services and facilities are used interchangeably throughout this chapter of the Report and signify the complex range of services provided.
  2. The principal sensory impairments referred to are those of sight and hearing.
  3. The categorisation is based on Census 2002, Volume 6 Occupations, Appendix 2, Definitions – Labour Force. In two-parent households the father’s occupation was recorded and in other instances the occupational status of the sole parent was recorded, in so far as it was known.
  4. Section 1 as amended by section 3 of the 2005 Act.
  5. Section 1(1)(a).
  6. Section 1(1)(b).
  7. Section 1(1)(c) as amended by section 3 of the 2005 Act.
  8. Section 1(1)(d) as amended by section 3 of the 2005 Act.