‘Biggest fear is the regression she’d have’ – mother’s struggle to get special school place for Zoey (4)

Parents worried over what lies ahead for their little girl who is not allowed back to pre-school class

One family's heartbreak and stress to fight for a junior infants place for their nonverbal daughter

Ellen Coyne

Every day, Sharon Fleming looks at the picture of her four-year-old daughter Zoey in her school uniform and thinks: “What will we do if there’s no school uniform now?”

Little Zoey, from Clondalkin, Dublin, will not be able to go to junior infants next September because nobody can find a special place for her additional needs.