Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Down's Syndrome Education Equality: Discussion

1:25 pm

Professor Sue Buckley:

-----and more resourced.

It does not mean one still does not need a little bit of money because if a blind child or a child who needs a deaf signer arrives in school, that is an unusual event. The Deputy will know what I mean. Most systems are working it well. That pot shrunk and they recognised it is about developing an inclusive system where every child is an individual and we can value the individual, and we can make the best use of our peers.

Some school systems are much better at the peer-support exercise where other children are supporting. They are working in a small group together and they are doing one-to-one peer support or small-group support, and everybody benefits. The research shows that if one learns to teach something to somebody, one has benefited.

We need to be creative and flexible, do we not? I know I am slightly off the specific agenda, but this is really important and one will hear me say so whenever I run training. It is not only about Down's syndrome.

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