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Jump To Comment: 1 2In addition to all of this, the minister got on TV recently and tried to justify the state's denial of early intervention resources to children of families suffering from autism. Despite the fact that all experts and parents have found a proven educational methodology that has been shown to improve the prospects of autistic children, the government feels it knows better than the pedagogical experts what works. Any excuse to avoid spending money on the most vulnerable members of society.
The Department of Education budgets educational psychologists for two/three
children per primary year. One principal I spoke to tells me that she would
have upwards of fifty kids needing early intervention (which is crucial) in speech,
dsypraxia and dsylexia. These kids are wholly ignored. The waiting lists are incredibly
long for intervention.
The longer the parent waits the more difficult the situation regarding
accessing resource and remedial one to one learning.
The harder it is to get exemption in Irish.
The harder it is to register a learning 'disabled' child.
This meands that kids who are neglected by the education system cannot apply
for word processing/extra time or a reader in exams.
Some kids are eight or nine by the time a diagnosis is achieved.
This wipes them off the scale with regard to support - {not the issue
of mainstreaming which is a whole other story}
Organisation such as the dsylexia association of Ireland are not adequately
funded by the State and very few Ministers of Education attended the conferences.
This creates a private industry, in which parents pay vast amounts of cash
to get an early diagnosis and often send the child to private schools where the
pupil /teacher ratio is a lot lower.
The issue of dyslexia is to some, just a different way of learning {often visual}
the kids are gifted in many areas but the curriculum in the Dept of Education
does not take cognizance of that fact- nor does it apply simple structures
of support for people with children who don't quite 'fit' in to the mainstream
box, in fact generations of kids have been harmed and squashed down by
sucessive ministers, in order to 'keep the books' in the black.