By Lara Pickford-Gordon, lpgordon.camsel@rcpos.org
The “real cost” of undiagnosed and untreated “hidden disabilities” is a child’s full potential remaining undeveloped, and potentially good and bright leaders going to the “negative side”, becoming destructive to society.
“The cost is high and it’s a cost we can no longer continue to pay,” said Archbishop Jason Gordon as he challenged educators and the education system to respond to the needs of children at last Wednesday’s opening of the Catholic Religious Education Development Institute’s (CREDI) ‘Hidden Disabilities Conference—What you cannot see’.