CEO & Chair of FindingCharliesVoice, an Irish Charity supporting all children and young adults with speech and language communication needs. CHY 22899
Ireland
Joined May 2020
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This is My Voice youtu.be/QLNPv2i-TCE?si=lk5Z… via @YouTube
Expect more.
Insist on more.
Your voice matters.
@HMcEntee @Education_Ire @iaslt #slcn #communication #access #1in10 @badcoyoteHQ
Finding Charlie's Voice retweeted
Outlining some of my key priorities in the Programme for Government, as the Minister for Education and Youth.
@Education_Ire
Thrilled and honored to be awarded the privilege of being an Official Charity Partner of the GAA for 2025!
Where everyone deserves a level playing field - where we all belong - and where everyone has a voice! 2025 has started off on a high! Thank you @officialgaa
200,000 children in schools around Ireland have access to communication boards. There are an estimated 2-3 children in EVERY classroom with a communication need. We remain UNFUNDED ran entirely by volunteers. L
@AnneRabbitte @1Hildegarde @Education_Ire @ncseirl @SimonHarrisTD
Huge congratulations @Dromiskinns ! They look fantastic! Thanks again to the team at Horizon Digital Print and to @SafeCareTech and @tobidynavox #accessforall #communication #findingcharliesvoice
Delighted to have our new playground communication boards from @FindingCharlie installed around the school grounds. Just in time for our first summer programme! So proud to support all forms of communication in St. Peter's. @AsIAmIreland @InclusionIre @dromiskinTT
Well done Alan - you managed to suppprt so many schools and we were delighted to help in a teeny teeny way!
Lovely to see! Well done @BanburyLitho on getting it safely and to all the team at Cameron House Community Centre !
@ms_bridodonnell giving us ALL the feels - tears - laughter - hope - this voice of the lived experience resonating with every single person in the room. So so honored to have you on our team xx
Now here's where it started to get messy .... when ambassador Bríd O' Donnell made the tears flow with a resounding account of living with #VerbalDyspraxia. The next few posts are dedicated to her (& her outstanding mum)
Not sure how I held it together! I’m pretty sure that I cried for the vast majority of the last segment !!!
I hope the road to Heuston was straightforward! It was the best accidental meet up! Thrilled to bits to meet and hear first hand how their 6 communication boards are doing in their school! Brendan’s school is a testament to evolving what inclusion is all about
@DrCiaraOToole fabulous to see this and at such an affordable rate! Hoping these will complement the @officialgaa communication boards we have designed too!!
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We are part of that stat. 7 page appeal letter being sent today after refusal for specialist intervention - how many don’t have the patience, resources, energy to appeal and fight for a basic right to access meaningful education and an excellent education at that @josephamadigan
45% of children with support needs are being failed by the educational system as they face multiple barriers to access their right to school. We expect our leaders to stand up and prioritise this with urgency - we are deeply disturbed by the Department of Education's @Education_Ire plan to remove the criteria enabling access to the support of special education teachers for children with ‘complex needs'. “We cannot do more with less” say the National Principal's Forum @ForumTeaching. Inclusion Ireland has written to the Department seeking an immediate meeting and clarification about these changes which have such potential serious consequences.
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What would your bday be without the thorn in your side @derrymcveigh ❤️❤️❤️
Join us for a morning of conversation about communication! Hear how you can apply for financial bursaries and listen to the experts, advocates and those living with communication difficulties! #slcn #communication #speechandlanguage #slcn
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We are signed up!!
Participants Needed:
Focus Group Research to Review the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act, 2004
The Minister for Special Education and Inclusion, @josephamadigan has asked a group of researchers from the School of Education at @ucddublin to explore people’s experiences of the EPSEN Act, 2004. This will be done using focus group research.
The EPSEN Act, 2004 was introduced to ensure that children with special educational needs are supported in schools.
We want to hear about your experiences of the EPSEN Act, 2004.
You can read more in the invitation flyers on our website here:
inclusionireland.ie/news-eve…
Please reach out directly to UCD at [email protected] to express your interest in joining these focus groups.
Everything Lyndsey says here - not to mention the door that never gets knocked on or the play dates that never happen….
Most often it’s ‘neurodivergent’ or children with ‘additional needs that are excluded’ from parties - it’s what we know, feel, & hurt from as parents. We have to do better & I’m talking about parents not children. This is detrimental to our children but also yours #NiceToBeAsked