Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Phil Fox:

If it is okay, I will take those questions in reverse order. One thing I have not mentioned so far is the supports we make available to teachers under our remit to regulate and promote the profession. One of those is our Collaboration Research for Ongoing Innovation, CROÍ, series. Each and every teacher who is registered with the council has free access to the EBSCO library. We have a research support framework through which we supply funding to teachers who are involved in formal programmes of teacher education. Some of the teachers who are in receipt of those bursaries are focusing their learning on the area of special education and inclusive education. We also have a suite of resources available on our website under the heading "Using Research in our School". That is available to any teacher. Inclusive education is, of course, one of the core elements of that.