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:
Some visually impaired students will be all right with enlarged papers, whereas others will need enlarged and modified papers. "Modified" means all the pictures taken out and graphs made simpler. The quality of our modified papers is really low. When I sent ours to the North to be examined, those concerned said they were not modified papers but just papers without pictures put in. Making provision for non-modified papers alone cut the cohort to about 20%. Next year, provision was made for modified papers. However, we need to move on to papers that can be accessed by digital readers.
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