Neurodiversity Ireland

07/10/2026

Don’t know where (or why) to start with AAC?

Join CJay Smith, who will introduce AAC & AT - in a way that makes sense and translates into real life, thanks to their own lived experience as a Gestalt Language Processor who uses AAC 🤸‍♂️🤩

Communication is a fundamental human right. We want to help support children to access that right.

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07/10/2026

06/10/2026

What helps children to attend school?

Certainly not being called “disordered”

2026 - there is no excuse left for this - TUSLA TESS when printing a glossy brochure about our children it would be important not to use offensive language in the process 😳

06/10/2026

What did parents say helps children to attend and what should be avoided?

06/10/2026

What did parents say helps kids go to school?

Was it rewards?

06/10/2026

Parent and Guardian report continues - how to help children to be able to attend school.

06/10/2026

Join Padraig Danaher, Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist for a talk on eating disorders that should bring new perspectives to a really challenging issue so many of our families experience.

Share with any professional or family member that would like to learn how to support a child and their family, with eating challenges, in a neuroaffirmative and child-centred way.

06/10/2026

Its Budget Day.

You can read our full submission on our website but here are some of the things we ask this Government to invest in, the most pressing being inclusive education.

We can’t wait whilst they tell us they need to “look at what inclusive education means” - our children are already the victims of a system that doesn’t want to teach all children equally.

05/10/2026

Check out the Equal Status Acts & the NCSE guides for creating inclusive classrooms.

Neither were needed in our experience with a really open minded principal who welcomed diversity rather than rejected it as being too much hassle.

05/10/2026

https://www.tusla.ie/uploads/content/Tusla_-_%28TESS%29_Consultations_with_Parents_in_relation_to_School_Attendance.pdf

For the full report. Published by TESS.