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 Toni O'Dwyer:

It is not just in education. Orientation and mobility or travel skills begin very early. Once the child begins to move, you begin to look at the skills around that. It is an incremental process that should be incorporated into a child's support plan throughout education because, as the Deputy rightly said, it impacts hugely on socialising, integration and inclusion in school. Although we provide it across the rest of the country, as well as in Munster, we do not have the resources to provide it to the intensity required to have students independent when they transition into college.

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