Ms Amy O'Keefe:

Yes. I have worked in the area since 2013. I work primarily with preschoolers and I cannot imagine not wanting to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. I accompany my pupils to their speech and language therapy, SLT, sessions and occupational therapy, OT, sessions and found that the similarity between what I do and what their other therapists do is quite stark. Those therapists are always surprised to hear that I am a behaviour analyst. When I explain what we do in Ireland generally as opposed to what happens in the States, and I always hold what happens in the State as the big example of how not to do behaviour analysis, the therapists are always really surprised to realise that our models are similar, such as using tokens when toilet training a little one. The culture here in Ireland is very different. Irish behavioural analysts like being part of a multidisciplinary team because we have stuck to the fundamental principles and roots that are at the heart of behavioural analysis. I mean that we do not exist in a vacuum, that lots of other people can have an input. We do not have a monopoly and do not want one. We want to continue working with others to provide safe services.