Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion

Ms Edel Doherty:

The difficulties are specifically down to the lack of available people who can deliver the programme in a way that is meaningful and beneficial to the child who is vision impaired. So a person needs to have vision impairment-specific knowledge in order to teach people. Summer is a perfect time of year and a perfect opportunity to go in with the additional skills but the biggest difficulty is the lack of available knowledge in that area.

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