Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Professor Michael Shevlin:

EY is developing what it calls a playbook, which is like a manual on how to employ people with intellectual disabilities within businesses based upon our model. That will hopefully be coming out early next year. It will have all of the different learning and be very practical and clear about what needs to happen to ensure that young people can succeed within an employment framework. Hopefully that will be out early next year; it is almost complete and ready to go. That will be a real step as that company has committed, along with other companies, to share its learning. As Ms Devitt said, the young person in Cork is employed now permanently. The company has offered this facility for Limerick, Galway or anywhere else it is based, so there is quite a number. It is just that levering that support requires that extra little bit of resourcing, as we said about the Inclusive National Higher Education Forum, INHEF, for someone like that to link colleges to the different networks. There is enthusiasm there and EY also wants to develop this on a European basis. There is enormous potential there.

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