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Expect more.
Insist on more.
Your voice matters.
@HMcEntee @Education_Ire @iaslt #slcn #communication #access #1in10 @badcoyoteHQ
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Finding Charlie's Voice
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Finding Charlie's Voice
@FindingCharlie
CEO & Chair of FindingCharliesVoice, an Irish Charity supporting all children and young adults with speech and language communication needs. CHY 22899
Ireland शामिल हुए Mayıs 2020
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Finding Charlie's Voice रीट्वीट किया
Outlining some of my key priorities in the Programme for Government, as the Minister for Education and Youth.
@Education_Ire
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Thrilled and honored to be awarded the privilege of being an Official Charity Partner of the GAA for 2025!
Where everyone deserves a level playing field - where we all belong - and where everyone has a voice! 2025 has started off on a high! Thank you @officialgaa
The GAA@officialgaa
The GAA is proud to announce its official charity partners for 2025 ⬇️
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200,000 children in schools around Ireland have access to communication boards. There are an estimated 2-3 children in EVERY classroom with a communication need. We remain UNFUNDED ran entirely by volunteers. L
@AnneRabbitte @1Hildegarde @Education_Ire @ncseirl @SimonHarrisTD
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Huge congratulations @Dromiskinns ! They look fantastic! Thanks again to the team at Horizon Digital Print and to @SafeCareTech and @tobidynavox #accessforall #communication #findingcharliesvoice
Dromiskin NS@Dromiskinns
Delighted to have our new playground communication boards from @FindingCharlie installed around the school grounds. Just in time for our first summer programme! So proud to support all forms of communication in St. Peter's. @AsIAmIreland @InclusionIre @dromiskinTT
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@irl_open @Education_Ire @1Hildegarde @NormaFoleyTD1 @SimonHarrisTD It’s systemic - also happens to many in mainstream who need specialist educational support - refused from language class for one reason , also refused from reading class for another - no ambition - what do I tell Charlie? They cared about your sister but they didn’t about you?
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Why is there no focus on educational outcomes for children in special schools and classes. Is there a widespread assumption that they can't learn the basics? Reading, maths etc? No accountability when they don't @Education_Ire @1Hildegarde @NormaFoleyTD1 @SimonHarrisTD
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Our student council accepting communication boards and posters which were donated to our school! These will be a fantastic addition to our playground and classrooms! Many thanks Alan @FindingCharlie 👏🏻#communication #Neurodiversity #inclusion @BallymackeyF @Toomecamogie @ToomeGAA
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@NaomhColmcille6 Well done Alan - you managed to suppprt so many schools and we were delighted to help in a teeny teeny way!
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We were delighted to accept a School Playground Communications Board from Alan Moynihan this week. Alan has spent the past year fundraising to raise enough funds to donate one to Tipperary schools in conjunction with @FindingCharlie. An amazing gesture 👏 🙌
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@NAITScotland @Edinburgh_CC @PrestonfieldPS @ASLService @edinburghpaper @rcsltscot @LothianAutistic @LothianChildren @CALLScotland Lovely to see! Well done @BanburyLitho on getting it safely and to all the team at Cameron House Community Centre !
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So excited that one of the @FindingCharlie communication boards is in situ at Prestonfield Park. Huge thanks to Deirdre at Cameron House community centre and @Edinburgh_CC @PrestonfieldPS @ASLService @edinburghpaper @rcsltscot @LothianAutistic @LothianChildren @CALLScotland
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@ms_bridodonnell giving us ALL the feels - tears - laughter - hope - this voice of the lived experience resonating with every single person in the room. So so honored to have you on our team xx
AccidentalAdvocate@AccidentalAdvo1
Now here's where it started to get messy .... when ambassador Bríd O' Donnell made the tears flow with a resounding account of living with #VerbalDyspraxia. The next few posts are dedicated to her (& her outstanding mum)
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@AccidentalAdvo1 Not sure how I held it together! I’m pretty sure that I cried for the vast majority of the last segment !!!
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I am only sorry I didn't take this a moment later. To absolutely sum up what the morning was about - children, their struggles, triumphs & the importance of HOPE Charlie popped up on stage to say hi
When we had all just about composed ourselves he set us all off again😭💙
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What a truly inspiring day. At times we are so caught in "The Fight" we forget to reflect and see how far we have come, how much progress we have made, and how brighter the future is
#HearOurVoice
@FindingCharlie
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@bsligo @AccidentalAdvo1 I hope the road to Heuston was straightforward! It was the best accidental meet up! Thrilled to bits to meet and hear first hand how their 6 communication boards are doing in their school! Brendan’s school is a testament to evolving what inclusion is all about
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@AccidentalAdvo1 @FindingCharlie A fantastic accident that I happened to be in the hotel and was so warmly welcomed. Well done to all involved, it was a fantastic, positive and hope inspiring event!
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@raisingrareness He fleeced me in @SmythsToysIRE afterwards!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Excited to learn about some of the initiatives & ideas mentioned today.
Let’s keep moving forward 🙌 Well done to @FindingCharlie , all the organisers, & the speakers.
p.s. Charlie stole the show at the end 🤩
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Presume competence, champion potential, give time & patience, & be open minded to changing your own mindset on conventional norms when it comes to communication.
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@DrCiaraOToole fabulous to see this and at such an affordable rate! Hoping these will complement the @officialgaa communication boards we have designed too!!
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We are part of that stat. 7 page appeal letter being sent today after refusal for specialist intervention - how many don’t have the patience, resources, energy to appeal and fight for a basic right to access meaningful education and an excellent education at that @josephamadigan
Inclusion Ireland@InclusionIre
45% of children with support needs are being failed by the educational system as they face multiple barriers to access their right to school. We expect our leaders to stand up and prioritise this with urgency - we are deeply disturbed by the Department of Education's @Education_Ire plan to remove the criteria enabling access to the support of special education teachers for children with ‘complex needs'. “We cannot do more with less” say the National Principal's Forum @ForumTeaching. Inclusion Ireland has written to the Department seeking an immediate meeting and clarification about these changes which have such potential serious consequences. inclusionireland.ie/news-events/de… @Independent_ie @irishexaminer @IrishTimes @rtenews @VirginMediaNews @thejournal_ie @TodayFMNews @NewstalkFM @98FM @FM104 @IPPN_Education @CatrionaGolden @simonlewis @IrishPrimaryPE @INTOnews @EducateTogether
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@derrymcveigh What would your bday be without the thorn in your side @derrymcveigh ❤️❤️❤️
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Extra tickets released but filling up fast! If attending please use the link to this FREE event -
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@daithideroiste @DavidGillick @AsIAmIreland @dervalmcd @AdamPHarris @LucanSpaHotel
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Tickets are filling up to this FREE event! eventbrite.ie/e/hear-our-voi…
@InclusionIre @AsIAm @AdamPHarris @daithideroiste @LordMayorDublin @DublinLive @NewstalkFM @PatKennyNT @evelyn_orourke @GarNob @rtenews @Independent_ie @IrishTimes
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Join us for a morning of conversation about communication! Hear how you can apply for financial bursaries and listen to the experts, advocates and those living with communication difficulties! #slcn #communication #speechandlanguage #slcn
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