Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion

11:00 am

Ms Derval Healy:

As part of the reading services department within ChildVision, there is an important piece on the offering of choice. While digital material plays a part within accessible formats, there are basic literacy skills that can be used not only through digital but also with assistive technology. For us, it is the importance of offering multiple alternative formats and access to different materials through those for the student or teacher or parents. That importance of choice across the board is really important. For mathematical subjects and geography, for example, it can sometimes be easier for a braille user as a student to study that through braille while studying other subjects through digital, so it is really-----

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