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 Eithne Walsh:

Exactly. It is a total of an extra half an hour. For some subjects, like English, history and geography – do not quote me – a student can get only ten minutes regardless. If you are accessing the papers with the reader or using Braille, it will take much longer. Let us compare that to the North. In the North, a student with a visual impairment can get up to 50% extra time, and that is a reasonable accommodation.

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