Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Ms Elaine Grehan:

I also think it is very important that when we are talking about communicating with children and communicating with adults, we adapt our language use slightly when we talk to deaf children. It is different with adults. Lámh is a supportive communication tool, but not a linguistic language. It is for somebody who has difficulty with verbalising what they want to say but deaf children use ISL the way deaf adults also do.