Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Roisin Doherty:

That is a brilliant question. For SOLAS, and the Department and Government, it is about a whole-of-life, whole-of-systems approach so that someone is not going through every system trying to get the supports that they need. I was talking to colleagues about life-event planning where events are planned across Departments for your life so that when you are transitioning from one school system to another that those transitions are put in place and you do not have to start again from scratch. They have that system in Estonia where they look at planning across departments for life events. That would be really good because then it would be just that someone is transitioning from primary to secondary to further and-or higher education and to employment and those are all seamless together.

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