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	The education system is failing&nbsp;<font color="#5c8b3f">Down synd</font><font color="#5c8b3f">rome</font>&nbsp;children, an Oireachtas committee was told.</h2>
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		Professor Sue Buckley, the President of&nbsp;<font color="#5c8b3f"><span style="font-size: 1em;">Down Syndr</span></font><font color="#5c8b3f"><span style="font-size: 1em;">ome</span></font>&nbsp;International, spoke to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education yesterday about the importance of the inclusion of&nbsp;<font color="#5c8b3f"><span style="font-size: 1em;">Down syndr</span></font><font color="#5c8b3f"><span style="font-size: 1em;">ome</span></font>&nbsp;children in schools.</p>
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		Down syndrome is not listed as a &quot;low incidence, complex disorder&quot; &ndash; so children do not get special assistance in the classroom in mainstream schools.</p>
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		Professor Buckley told the committee that by &quot;denying them &#39;low incidence&#39; levels of support, means that they &quot;do not have the level of support they and their teachers need to succeed&quot;.</p>
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		Down syndrome affects 0.2pc of the population of children in Ireland.</p>
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		<font color="#5c8b3f"><span style="font-size: 1em;">Joann</span></font><font color="#5c8b3f"><span style="font-size: 1em;">a Tuffy</span></font>, the chair of the Oireachtas committee, said that they recognised yesterday&#39;s meeting as a &quot;productive engagement&quot;, and that it would &quot;serve to inform future discussions&quot;.</p>
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		<a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/down-children-are-being-failed-29573190.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/down-children-are-being-failed-29573190.html</a></p>
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