National Council for Special Education website

List of Special Educational Needs Organisers for Wicklow

Enable Ireland children's services

Tools for learning

• The NCSE has produced a useful guide: Planning for Life After School - you can download it here. 

• Ready, Steady, Go! is a guide to further education options in Bray for people with an intellectual or learning disability. It was written with advice and input from young adults with intellectual and learning disabilities. Remember that courses and options may have changed since we wrote the guide, so check directly with the people providing the course to make sure they are still offering it. View guide here.

• The Bray Adult Education Network has compiled an adult education handbook that can be accessed on the internet. 

• The HSE Rehabilitative training and guidance service offers advice and guidance to people with disabilities aged over 16 years who are thinking about rehabilitative training or day services. You will be seen on a one-to-one basis and the support and information you receive is confidential.

Chalk It Down is a Bray Area Partnership information guide for parents about pre-school, primary and post-primary education in Bray. View guide here

The National Council for Special Education has useful information for parents of students with Special Educational Needs, including information booklets and lists of special classes in primary and post-primary mainstream schools.

Please check the following sites:

• Wicklow Community directory
• Tusla lists of pre-schools by county
• Wicklow County Childcare Committee
• Tools for learning - special pre-school for children with speech and language delay or disorder

St. Catherine's Special National School caters for children between the ages of 2 and 18 with a moderate, severe or profound learning disability.