531 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made on the recommendation in the report of the task force on autism of October 2001 that her Department and the Department of Health and Children co-ordinate a national Asperger’s syndrome-high functioning autism awareness campaign aimed at teachers, parents and the medical profession in an effort to combat current low levels of awareness and identification rates and that awareness be raised among professionals of the need for referral of suspected cases of Asperger’s syndrome-high functioning autism to the appropriate secondary or tertiary services and that special training be provided within the relevant professions on Asperger’s syndrome-high functioning autism; if such a recommendation has been carried out; if so, the extent to which; if not completed, when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29386/04]

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531 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made on the recommendation in the report of the task force on autism of October 2001 that her Department and the Department of Health and Children co-ordinate a national Asperger’s syndrome-high functioning autism awareness campaign aimed at teachers, parents and the medical profession in an effort to combat current low levels of awareness and identification rates and that awareness be raised among professionals of the need for referral of suspected cases of Asperger’s syndrome-high functioning autism to the appropriate secondary or tertiary services and that special training be provided within the relevant professions on Asperger’s syndrome-high functioning autism; if such a recommendation has been carried out; if so, the extent to which; if not completed, when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29386/04]

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