My sons' primary school was quite deficient in facilities when they first attended there, but in the past five years or so, much-needed improvements, rebuilding, etc. have taken place. Too late for my kids to get much good from it, but oh well. And we live close to metro Sydney, too; I shudder to think what they would have had to endure if we lived in the outback.
I remember one year when there were three kids on the spectrum, all in the same class. Their kinder teacher received special training for working with them, and door handles were raised, and other security measures were taken, and all the infants' teachers were on permanent high alert in case one of them wandered off. I myself volunteered as a parent-helper with a Year One girl with an undiagnosed PDD. No diagnosis, no funding for a teacher-aide. Her classroom teacher would have had no hope of keeping tabs on her and teaching the class at the same time unless she'd had help.
