Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Down's Syndrome Education Equality: Discussion

1:45 pm

Professor Sue Buckley:

If a statement was reviewed, an educational psychologist would be involved, but so would speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and everybody else. It might not be the person who co-ordinates all of the statement, so it would vary. If one is reviewing these low incidence children with high levels of need - I would do it for the rest of the 20% about which we were talking - one is building it in. There is a statutory requirement for a review at 13 with a view to planning teenage education and adult life, but we have these SATs assessment for all children of academic progress at the end of Year 2 and Year 6 and once in secondary education. That is for all children. That is a measure of how they are doing against the curriculum on academic progress, but there is no fixed point. If a statement still seems to be okay and the results the child is getting are okay, there is no particular need to review it. It is having a flexible system in place that works.

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