Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism
Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)
Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I am fairly sure Mr. Harris answered. That was a lot more coherent than the questions he was asked. I imagine the Cathaoirleach will deal with this. In my garble, what I managed not to see until now is the issue of augmentative and alternative communication, AAC. Specifically we saw rapid prompting method, RPM, working with Fiacre Ryan, but at some level, we are not too worried. Whatever works for whatever kid. It gave me that notion of somebody who was hidden away and many people could have quite easily said there is nothing they could do. It can be imagined the absolute frustration that such a person would have had to deal with. Whatever about education, the other piece is in regard to therapies. Let us just put them where they work and are needed. An element of that is that it makes sense to have those therapies in school at times. However, I may have made too many points earlier.
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