Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Mr. Lambert. Ms Galster has said that she has a special interest in autism, in particular, and that she has done a great deal of training around that. She knows that in working with children and young people with autism that there are enormous skills in some places which go above and beyond what she, I, and others who are non-autistic students would be able to do. These students may have a specific flair for maths, for art or for other things. Does Ms Galster see in her role that potential being used? Is there a potential for an autistic child with a unique or specific talent to grow and to fulfil their full potential as things stand at the moment?