Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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With regard to training teachers for Braille, is it a case of a person who themselves is visually impaired then progressing to become a teacher of Braille for younger people? I am thinking of people who teach Braille to younger children. How do they get trained in that? Is it because they themselves had a visual impairment and they learned it? Is that how they became expert in it?