Every government service is being eroded while the population grows.
Ministers just keep the lights on.
Anyway these children can live in a hotel when they grow up and if they ever need hospital they will have to sit in A and E for 24 hours hoping the triage nurse likes the look of them.
Yet another not-fit-for purpose service in Ireland. It really makes you wonder what happens with all that tax money
My son is autistic. I’m not even 40 yet and I’m already terrified about what will happen him when we die. He is an only child too. This country is an absolute shit hole
“It’s grand!” thinking applied to everything. If you expect any kind of quality then the problem is your notions.
So frustrating.
Maybe its time for parents of kids with special needs to arrange homeschooling pods. Kids get to be in a calming environment and they get to share the benefits of the state allocated home education assistance.
EDIT – I am a parent of 2 autistic children. Its not an uncommon idea among parents of kids with special needs. Seems to be about a third of us have seriously considered it as an option.
People with special needs do not get enough support in this country in any way. My son has been on the waiting list for an autism (or who knows what else) assessment for 6 years. Once again, I asked the doctor if there’s anything we can do to speed it up. He said “your best bet is to get on to a politician”
What the fuck??!!
now really surprising considering the baby boom that happened during the recession, of course our government didn’t account for the population expansion
I have a friend whose daughter is in a Gaelscoil and she gets amazing one on one support. We were just talking about it the other day. This is because there aren’t many people who have kids with additional needs that send their kids to a Gaelscoil.
From what I understand, schools are granted a certain number of support hours and her daughter is benefitting from the fact that there is no one else using them.
My daughter went to an English speaking school and got very few supports and anything she got was done with a group of other kids.
There was a teaching assistant who worked with one of the kids in my daughter’s class but there was another kid in the class who needed it too but they didn’t have anyone else, so because the first child’s need was deemed greater, the second child got nothing.
It’s a fight for support for your child because schools have far too many kids needing help and not enough people or hours available.
It’s a terrible system.
Our approach to special needs – especially autism – is a fucking crime. There are people who could have learned to speak but likely lost their chance because we have a bunch of lazy idiots running the show. We need to be able to fire incompetent people.
If we had an autistic child we would have immediately moved to Norway, which appears to be the best in Europe. We have 2 kids and neither appear to be on the spectrum, though we were alert for it because my sister is – part of why my mother ended up getting a PhD in behavioral analysis.
Are they admitting that sending special needs children to mainstream schools is failing?
FFG simply do not care about social services. If avenues do not exist whereby private individuals can profit from providing social services, they do not get provided.
We have enough problems we expect the government to deal with on our behalves. If you want your child to get special individual treatment homeschool them.
So many problems across first and second level. One thing that could be done is inspections focus entirely on how the hours given to schools for extra help are actually used.
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Every government service is being eroded while the population grows.
Ministers just keep the lights on.
Anyway these children can live in a hotel when they grow up and if they ever need hospital they will have to sit in A and E for 24 hours hoping the triage nurse likes the look of them.
Yet another not-fit-for purpose service in Ireland. It really makes you wonder what happens with all that tax money
My son is autistic. I’m not even 40 yet and I’m already terrified about what will happen him when we die. He is an only child too. This country is an absolute shit hole
“It’s grand!” thinking applied to everything. If you expect any kind of quality then the problem is your notions.
So frustrating.
Maybe its time for parents of kids with special needs to arrange homeschooling pods. Kids get to be in a calming environment and they get to share the benefits of the state allocated home education assistance.
EDIT – I am a parent of 2 autistic children. Its not an uncommon idea among parents of kids with special needs. Seems to be about a third of us have seriously considered it as an option.
People with special needs do not get enough support in this country in any way. My son has been on the waiting list for an autism (or who knows what else) assessment for 6 years. Once again, I asked the doctor if there’s anything we can do to speed it up. He said “your best bet is to get on to a politician”
What the fuck??!!
now really surprising considering the baby boom that happened during the recession, of course our government didn’t account for the population expansion
I have a friend whose daughter is in a Gaelscoil and she gets amazing one on one support. We were just talking about it the other day. This is because there aren’t many people who have kids with additional needs that send their kids to a Gaelscoil.
From what I understand, schools are granted a certain number of support hours and her daughter is benefitting from the fact that there is no one else using them.
My daughter went to an English speaking school and got very few supports and anything she got was done with a group of other kids.
There was a teaching assistant who worked with one of the kids in my daughter’s class but there was another kid in the class who needed it too but they didn’t have anyone else, so because the first child’s need was deemed greater, the second child got nothing.
It’s a fight for support for your child because schools have far too many kids needing help and not enough people or hours available.
It’s a terrible system.
Our approach to special needs – especially autism – is a fucking crime. There are people who could have learned to speak but likely lost their chance because we have a bunch of lazy idiots running the show. We need to be able to fire incompetent people.
If we had an autistic child we would have immediately moved to Norway, which appears to be the best in Europe. We have 2 kids and neither appear to be on the spectrum, though we were alert for it because my sister is – part of why my mother ended up getting a PhD in behavioral analysis.
Are they admitting that sending special needs children to mainstream schools is failing?
FFG simply do not care about social services. If avenues do not exist whereby private individuals can profit from providing social services, they do not get provided.
We have enough problems we expect the government to deal with on our behalves. If you want your child to get special individual treatment homeschool them.
So many problems across first and second level. One thing that could be done is inspections focus entirely on how the hours given to schools for extra help are actually used.