Ms Mary Doran:

Regarding assistive technologies, we are collaborating with the WHO. A significant programme of work is going to be done in collaboration with UCD and Maynooth College, where we are doing a literature review regarding best practice both here and internationally. We have to learn from some of those practices. That is looking at how we do assessments, interventions and support. To give a very simple example, a parent said she went to an intervention that was recorded on video and when she went home, she was able to model that intervention with her child. There was an immediate learning as opposed to us providing that intervention in a documented way. There is that element. There is also the use of assistive technology across all spectrums, such as CDNTs but also respite and residential, in terms of how that can support and enhance the lived experience, building and growing on the strengths-based approach to assistive technology.