The library was officially opened in Stewarts Hospital on 23 March 2000, and on 31 May it was named after John J. Jennings, a...
Reviewed by Flo Goslin
This little book is an invaluable aid for those working with and caring for people with learning disabilities. I have personally worked with children...
Reviewed by Flo Goslin
This user-friendly book would be of enormous assistance to those involved with groups of people with mixed abilities. The games are simple and fun,...
Reviewed by A.R. Giles
This volume of 321 tightly written pages is not for the faint-hearted! But its subtitle, 'voluntary and statutory relationships in Irish healthcare', indicates that...
A programme to develop reading-skills, described here by Mary Nugent, has produced positive results in a County Dublin special school, both for learners and for their helpers.
Mary Nugent,
Senior Educational Psychologist,
St John of God Services
(now with National Educational Psychological Service, N. Frederick Street, Dublin 1)
All of us working in special education are interested in raising the level of achievement of the people with whom we work. This article...
Portlaoise, 15 February 2001
The Activity Networking Group in association with the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies, held their first national conference in the Montague...
by Jennifer Riney, CoAction West Cork
A very successful seminar on the TEACCH approach to autism took place in the Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery, on 14-16 February 2001. The seminar...
by Cathy Hayes
The annual seminar of the Irish Fragile X Society took place on Saturday 3 February in the Arts Block of Trinity College. This year's...
by Peggy Barragry
Centre for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, UCD, 15 December 2000
'Disability is a natural part of the human process and does not diminish the...
Mary McEvoy writes about life, in and out of dirty Dublin, and about serious medical matters too.
January, seemingly the longest month of the year, forced us to take desperate measures to relieve the dull boredom of a lingering winter. One...
