Sinead Kennedy is the director of the programme, and she has completed post graduate course in this area and is ably assisted by teachers and two specially designated Special Needs Assistants.
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The official opening was attended by a host of local dignitaries, including Mayor Pat O’Sullivan. The new facility was blessed by Mullagh P.P. Fr Niall Foley himself a former Staff member and Vice President of the college.
New Autism Centre Opens Garbally College marked a significant new development in the school’s educational journey recently with the official opening of a new purpose-built Autism Unit on its Ballinasloe campus. The College currently has ten students in the Autistic and Special Learning Needs categories, and this new venture is part of the college’s inclusion policy to ensure students with special needs are educated in a conventional school environment. The new facility is the most modern of its type in Ireland; located at the edge of the forested area near the college’s
main entrance, it blends in magnificently with the adjoining existing buildings. It contains a tuition room equipped with the latest I.C.T. facilities, bathroom and shower and hot press as well as an Arts and Crafts Room and a magnificent Multi Sensory Relaxation Room. The students follow a FETAC programme, which includes English, Maths, Arts and Crafts, Horticulture, Food Appreciation, Metalwork, Music and Woodwork. The centre has expanded from one pupil when it began in 2007 to a projected enrolment of 15 students for the next academic year 2011-2012.
Prospective Students meet the Garbally Dragon
Students are put through their paces in the new Sports Complex in the College.
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