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:

From a reading services perspective and the delivery of alternative formats, there are so many different publishers throughout Ireland and so many different schoolbooks within the system. The example we always give is that we produce five or six copies of Macbeth each year because the publisher has different notes within that. If we could look at standardised books, even within the core subjects of Irish, English and maths, within the education system for schools with children with a visual impairment, it would mean those children would be guaranteed to have those books in September of each year. A very small change within schools-----

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