Dr. Mary Rose Sweeney:

I brought along the list and I have a copy for everybody in the audience. Students need access to multidisciplinary assessment first and to get a diagnosis because many students coming into the university system do not yet have that, so resources for that are important. I mentioned sensory pods earlier. These are places to go and defuse if people need to do that. They cost about €7,000, which is not a huge spend. Every university probably needs five or six of them. These are designated quiet spaces where people can go to a low-sensory environment with others so they are not isolated in a pod on their own.

Having rooms around the campus where that can happen is also very important. They need a designated education psychologist who can help them to achieve and attain to their highest ability with their learning styles in mind and to help them to develop strategies for that to cope with the academic workload, assignments, deadlines, competing priorities and things like that. Life skills were mentioned earlier and a life coach-type person could be there to support them with the day-to-day stuff such as the five coffees and not just having pasta, rice and potatoes on a plate but getting a balanced diet and that sort of thing.