Ms Áine Lawlor:

In terms of RPM, I said earlier that we think about a whole-school approach, or the whole approach we are looking to fund. As a professional organisation, what we recommend clinically is not one specific approach but utilising an approach that is tailored to a child. This means a child would have access to an appropriate assessment, planning and intervention that provides a tailored approach that is appropriate to them, rather than one whole approach that may not be the best approach for any child. It is wider than that because, particularly when it comes to AAC, it is about building communication support, building language development and building literacy support. It is much broader than that. Each child requires an individualised approach to that which is evidence-based and robust. That would be our recommendation.