The Kildare Children & Young People’s Services Committee (CYPSC) and Sláintecare Healthy Communities Programme have funded an inter-agency neurodiversity and inclusion initiative in Co. Kildare. My role within the project so far has been to:
- Conduct preliminary consultations with service providers to envision scope and be led by their goals and needs.
- Provide a training programme to equip professionals with skills to enable/facilitate the inclusion of Neurodiverse children and their families into the existing programmes;
- Provide support and training to parents of Neurodiverse children who attend these services;
- Provide occupational therapy to a selection of Neurodivergent children attending the services.
I have delivered the programme in community Family Resource Centres.